[Ubuntu-ZW] Timezone issues, potentially quite bad

Kalpesh Thaker luminary06 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 13 08:39:52 UTC 2013


Ahh, you are correct!

"From: kt <kt at thejoker>
To: kalpesh at webdevworld.com
Subject: test
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:31:18 +0204
Message-ID: <2291584.5WqPz9Rkts at thejoker>
X-KMail-Identity: 101880761
User-Agent: KMail/4.8.5 (Linux/3.2.0-31-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.5; i686; ; )
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" "

What really weird, is that im subscribed a few lists, like debian security
and a few others. havent had any bounces yet.

using thunderbird, i get:

"From - Wed Mar 13 10:37:59 2013

X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
Message-ID: <51403AE7.3020205 at webdevworld.com>
Disposition-Notification-To: kalpesh thaker <kalpesh at webdevworld.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:37:59 +0200
From: kalpesh thaker <kalpesh at webdevworld.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221
Thunderbird/17.0.3
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: kalpesh at hosting.co.zw
Subject: test
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"

im having a look to see if its possible to change that time zone manually
in kmail.

kalpesh


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:44 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kalpesh,
>
> no this is not a host issue, I use different sending hosts depending on
> account and also then it would not change if I changed timezone.
>
> It is KMail (and other clients) that sets a Date field in the headers and
> that defaults to UTC +0200 or whatever offset to UTC you happen to be in.
> UTC +0204 is in other clearly wrong.
>
> Just to test I swapped again and the problem returned.
>
> If you are using KMail, open a sent mail, do View All Headers and look for
> the Date field and see what value you have, then we can compare.
>
> Best,
> Orion
>
>
> On 13/03/2013 08:55, Kalpesh Thaker wrote:
>
>> Hi Orion,
>>
>> Im actually using kmail myself. im subscribed to quite a few forums
>> online and havent had any issues when posting or replying to threads.
>> confirm that in the headers, its your host that has the incorrect time,
>> and not one of the relays from your ISP?
>>
>> Im noticing you're seeing UTC. your universal time should actually be 2
>> hours behind.. so the correct date on your computer should be:
>>
>> Current default time zone: 'Africa/Harare'
>> Local time is now:      Wed Mar 13 08:53:47 CAT 2013.
>> Universal Time is now:  Wed Mar 13 06:53:47 UTC 2013.
>>
>> you can double check your time zone on your OS from the command line:
>>
>> "sudo date"
>>
>> then change/confirm your tz using:
>>
>> "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata"
>>
>> once thats done, sync your clock:
>>
>> "sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org <http://pool.ntp.org>" --> check that ntpdate
>>
>> is installed first.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> kalpesh
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:48 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com
>> <mailto:o.sinclair at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     am using Kubuntu 12.10 with all updates and such.
>>
>>     A while ago I posted some issues on the kde-devel list that was
>>     initially rejected as spam. I had some discussions with the list
>>     administrator Ben Cooksley.
>>
>>     He informed me that a major problem was that my sending headers were
>>     set to date as UTC +0204. As we in Harare are UTC +0200 this meant
>>     all kinds of spamassasin and friends believed my mails to be some
>>     kind of bogey.
>>
>>     You can see this in a sent mail by viewing All Headers and look for
>>     Date sent or similar.
>>
>>     My question to fellow ubuntu-users with computers set to timezone
>>     Africa/Harare is of course:
>>     Am I the only one having this issue?
>>     Is it possibly a KMail issue or are Thunderbird/Evolution users
>>     seeing it as well?
>>
>>     If it is "just me" I will have to figure out what is wrong with my
>>     setup (changing to Lusaka/Zambia fixed it btw).
>>     If it is KMail then I have to bug the devs
>>     If it is Ubuntu time to file a bug there
>>
>>     Kind regards
>>     Sinclair
>>
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