On Wednesday 22 August 2007 13:58, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:07:49 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > By the way, in the bug report, please show the date generated by both the
> > mail (or Mail) and bsmtp commands.  On my machine the dates seem to be
> > correct. Perhaps postfixing (CEST) confuses someone's email program as
> > that is the only difference between mail and bsmtp (bsmtp has an extra
> > (CEST) added).
>
> Try setting TZ=EST5EDT.  That should put -0400 as the offset, but on Linux
> I always get the local offset including dst.
>
> Also, on FreeBSD I always get +0000 regardless of TZ (probably the local
> offset without dst).
>
> The basic problem is that gettimeofday() doesn't set the tz_minuteswest
> from the TZ variable.

If that is the case (tz_minuteswest not set), then the bug would seem to be in 
your OS' gettimeofday() implementation.

Can you send me a copy of the FreeBSD gettimeofday() man page?

>
> __Martin
>
> > On Tuesday 21 August 2007 19:59, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > FYI, a proposed solution for the date problem.
> > >
> > > ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> > > From:             "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To:               Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Date sent:        Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:55:03 -0400
> > > Priority:         normal
> > > Copies to:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject:          Re: [Bacula-users] wrong date in mail report with
> > > 2.2.0
> > >
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> > >
> > > On 21 Aug 2007 at 12:47, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> > > > Dan Langille wrote:
> > > > > On 20 Aug 2007 at 0:40, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> > > > >> Dan Langille wrote:
> > > > >>> On 18 Aug 2007 at 11:00, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> > > > >>>> Dan Langille wrote:
> > > > >>>>> On 18 Aug 2007 at 2:00, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> > > > >>>>>> Since upgrading to 2.2.0 bsmtp sets the wrong Date: header in
> > > > >>>>>> the mail: Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:48:56 +0000 (CEST)
> > > > >>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>> For the recipient the above message appears to have been
> > > > >>>>>> receieved at 03:48, two hours ahead.
> > > > >>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>> The correct timezone is UTC +2, the above header should have
> > > > >>>>>> read Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:48:56 +0200 (CEST)
> > > > >>>>>>                                    ^
> > > > >>>>>> Again, this might be FreeBSD specific just as my last report.
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>> This just in (at 23:22 local time):
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:19:12 +0000 (EDT)
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>> Compare that to an email generated via: echo 'test' | mail dan
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>> Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:21:39 -0400 (EDT)
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>> It's getting the timezone wrong.  In my case, it should be
> > > > >>>>> -0400. I won't have time to look at this until Saturday
> > > > >>>>> afternoon.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>> I'd like to chime in that it is NOT just FreeBSD, but at least
> > > > >>>> also Solaris. I've had this problem with Solaris and Horde/IMP
> > > > >>>> before as well, so I never reported it on the Bacula list
> > > > >>>> figuring it was really not their problem. My Bacula director is
> > > > >>>> Solaris 9. I don't know how 10 would change this.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Good.  Good to know.  Thank you.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Perhaps it was this commit:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bacula/trunk/bacula/src/
> > > > >>>tool s /bsmtp.c?view=diff&r1=4789&r2=479
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> If you look at older versions of bsmtp, and I think that's where
> > > > >>> the problem is, you see this (look around line 353):
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bacula/trunk/bacula/src/
> > > > >>>tool s /bsmtp.c?view=diff&r1=2835&r2=283
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> The code used to do:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>   strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", &tm)
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Where the %z (time zone offset, e.g. -04) is the time zone.  For
> > > > >>> some reason, this is now done as a different step (see the first
> > > > >>> URL) and uses %Z (time zone name, eg. EST)
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> This patch fixes the problem for me, but I suspect there were
> > > > >>> some special issues attempted by the original code that my fix
> > > > >>> does not address.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> --- src/tools/bsmtp.c~      Sat Aug 18 16:33:26 2007
> > > > >>> +++ src/tools/bsmtp.c       Sat Aug 18 16:33:26 2007
> > > > >>> @@ -194,11 +194,7 @@
> > > > >>>     gettimeofday(&tv, &tz);
> > > > >>>     my_timezone = tz.tz_minuteswest; /* timezone offset in mins
> > > > >>> */ #endif
> > > > >>> -   strftime(buf, buf_len, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", &tm);
> > > > >>> -   sprintf(tzbuf, " %+2.2ld%2.2u", -my_timezone / 60,
> > > > >>> abs(my_timezone) % 60);
> > > > >>> -   strcat(buf, tzbuf);              /* add +0100 */
> > > > >>> -   strftime(tzbuf, sizeof(tzbuf), " (%Z)", &tm);
> > > > >>> -   strcat(buf, tzbuf);              /* add (CEST) */
> > > > >>> +   strftime(buf, buf_len, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z %Z", &tm);
> > > > >>>  }
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I haven't had a lot of time to look this over, but I think that
> > > > >> the date in my headers from bstmp will be interesting to you and
> > > > >> others who may be having this problem and have had more time to
> > > > >> look at it:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:57:00 +0000 (%z)
> > > > >>
> > > > >> ...that don't look right to me. :) I suspect %z and %Z may not be
> > > > >> handled properly on non-Linux? Is that even possible? I thought
> > > > >> most of this stuff kinda stuck to POSIX for this kind of thing,
> > > > >> whatever it might have to say about this. <shrug>
> > > > >
> > > > > Ryan: please check man strftime and compare to what I found here
> > > > > for %z:  http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?00+00
> > > > >
> > > > > In short, %Z is supported on Solaris, but not %z.
> > > >
> > > > Changing this %z to %Z (actually, on 2.0.3 I think it was changing
> > > > '%Z (%z)' to just %Z) rectifies the problem on Solaris 9, which is
> > > > nice, because I was really sick of doing the math every time my
> > > > backups finished.
> > >
> > > I am tempted to change the code to use %Z.  It seems to be more
> > > portable and exists on all the man strftime pages that I've checked.
> > >
> > > Either that or add an autoconf test.  Which I don't know how to do.
> > > If someone does that work, I'll be sure to add it in.
> > >
> > > If no objections, I'll do the %Z patch tomorrow.  And, FYI, I'll
> > > patch the 2.2.0 code in the Bacula port.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/
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> > >
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