Re: [Exim] Timezone Problems

Philip Hazel wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Kamalan Govender wrote:
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>>I have read the docs, and it says"This is appropriate behaviour for
>>obtaining wall-clock time on some, but unfortunately not all, operating
>>systems"
>>Is Solaris 8 02/02 one of these systems?
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>That is referring to unsetting the TZ variable, in order to get
>wallclock time. For Solaris 7, the answer is "yes". This is on a Solaris
>8 system:
>

>$ echo $TZ
>GB
>$ date
>Mon Oct 14 10:31:37 BST 2002          <= this is my current wallclock
>$ (TZ=; date)
>Mon Oct 14 10:31:50 BST 2002
>$ (TZ=GMT; date)
>Mon Oct 14 09:31:56 GMT 2002          <= this is correct GMT
>$ (TZ=GMT+2; date)
>Mon Oct 14 07:33:05 GMT 2002
>$ (TZ=GMT-2; date)
>Mon Oct 14 11:33:19 GMT 2002

>
>That suggests to me that Sun have got their naming conventions
>"backwards", but it is easy to get confused by these timezone things,
>so maybe I'm just confused.
>

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>ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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Sorry, losing you here. When you telnet locahost 25 on a system, is the
last field the GMT off set?
When I telnet localhost 25 I get:
220 marcus.wits.ac.za ESMTP Exim 4.10 Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:43:46 -0200

Which I read as GMT-2. The second last field, 12:44:46 is the right
wall-clock time.

Here is a header from mail sent to a user(myself):
From - Mon Oct 14 08:33:05 2002
X-UIDL: 54b98
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Received: from marcus.wits.ac.za
by calisto.wits.ac.za; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:21:24 +0200 (My departments
server, It has the right time and GMT, Novell groupWise)
Received: from root by marcus.wits.ac.za with local (Exim 4.10)
id 1812Sm-0003gU-00
for kamalang@???; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:28:46 -0200 (server I
am working this problem on. Right time, wrong GMT)
Message-Id: <E1812Sm-0003gU-00@???>
From: Super-User <root@???>
Bcc:
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:28:46 -0200

test

When I receive the mail, the date field on my mail client (Mozilla Mail)
show the time as 12:38
4 hours ahead of the wall clock time.

I think if I can get Exim to show the last field to be +0200 and the
right wall clock time, when it shoud be ok.

bash-2.05# echo $TZ
GMT+2 (maybe mine should be something like South Afirca? )
bash-2.05# date
Mon Oct 14 12:38:37 GMT 2002 (this is the right wall clock time)
bash-2.05# (TZ=; date)
Mon Oct 14 12:39:46 GMT 2002 (right wall clock time again)
bash-2.05# (TZ=GMT; date)
Mon Oct 14 14:40:09 GMT 2002 (addes 2 hours to wall clock time)
bash-2.05# (TZ=GMT+2; date)
Mon Oct 14 12:40:17 GMT 2002 (gives wall clock time again)


What do you recommend for me to try?

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