Daylight savings time strikes again! Not all machines accepted a patch from Microsoft and many will not change until later in March. Remember, we started DST earlier than last year and will end later than last year . . .
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Stanford Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 18:55 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Time stamp problem Are the time zones correct? _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Katie LaSalle-Lowery Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] Time stamp problem Hello all, I've got a problem that is is perplexing me. Messages received into some POP clients are displaying a time stamp that is one hour fast. Other POP clients display a time stamp with the correct time. We have tested using 3 pc's -- one with Windows XP Pro, one with Windows Vista Business and one with Windows 2000 Pro. On the Windows XP box: MS Office 2007 - time stamp one hour fast MS Outlook Express 6.00.290.2180 - time stamp one hour fast Incredimail XE Build 2501361 - time stamp one hour fast Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.5.0.14- time stamp correct (so 1 client out of 4 on that pc shows the right time stamp) On the Windows Vista Business Edition machine: MS Windows Mail - time stamp one hour fast MS Outlook 2007 - time stamp one hour fast On the Windows 2000 Pro pc: MS Outlook 2000 - time stamp correct MS Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 - time stamp correct I have configured the various POP clients on the various machines to leave a copy of messages on the server. The exact same message will display in the various clients as listed above. The timestamp displayed in web messaging is correct. The time on all of the pc's is correct. We are running Imail Server 9.23 on a Windows 2003 server. The time set on the mail server is correct but the time zone isn't entirely correct. I manually advanced the time on the server 1 hour when Daylight Savings Time began. The server is not configured to automatically adjust clock for daylight savings time. It is set for the time zone Mountain Standard Time (GMT -07:00). The times stamped in the sys log are correct. On the Windows XP box described above I also have a MS Exchange account. The same MS Office 2003 that displays a time stamp one hour fast on messages received through our Imail server displays the correct time stamp on messages received through the Exchange server. So then I wondered more about the time zone issue... I changed the time zone to Central (GMT -06:00) (there is no Mountain Daylight Savings zone but GMT -06:00 is the same as MDT). Tests good (tested some POP clients of both groups). Those POP clients that were displaying an incorrect time stamp must, I surmise, "read" the time zone of the mail server. It doesn't really matter what we call it but it has to be the correct GMT adjusted time (so during daylight savings it must be GMT -06:00 and during standard time GMT -07:00). Just one problem... Now web messaging shows a time stamp two hours slow. Can anyone show me what I'm missing or give me the "formula"? Thanks, Katie
