On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:23:29AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:50:35PM -0800, Sam Trenholme wrote:
> >
> > > How do I change the timezone information that qmail puts in the
> > > received
> > > header?
> > > Qmail is running on openbsd 2.8.
...
> > [1] Sales people are nortorious for wanting to have a time stamp for
> > the exact time they sent or received an email. In their time zone.
...
> There's a very good reason these headers are in UTC. If you send a
> mail to the other side of the world, the next Received: line will also
> be UTC. This means you don't have to do timezone calculations to see
> how long a mail really took.
Calculations a provincial, fat, balding, ugly american sysdmin
like me will almost always get wrong because of EST, DST and God's time
are sometimes different sometimes not. Tell your salespeople that
the net is run geeks like me. :-) Don't even get into clock skew
and why ntp died on that machine.
> UTC is good. People requesting otherwise in their Received: header are
> confused.
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