Dear All
OK, sigh... I was hoping to avoid the religious OS wars and I intend to
stick to the facts, I hope everyone else can also. I need to give you some
further details on the setup. Also I have done a further test and I still
see a problem with qmail.
I have a network (for purposes of
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:28:53PM +0200, Patrick Starrenburg wrote:
[snip]
*Linux box*
[root@linuxbox patrick]# date
Sun May 13 17:02:55 GMT+2 2001 - Check
Yes.
*W2K box*
C:\date
The current date is: Sun 13/05/2001 - European date format naturally
C:\time
The current time is:
Your problem is almost certainly not qmail related.
First off you may want to learn how Unix/Linux keeps time. Believe it
or not, Unix/Linux don't know anything about timezones. They all keep
time internally in UTC (nee GMT). Yes, every Unix server on the planet
current has the same time. To
Patrick Starrenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(as it is summer and for once the sun is shining in Holland) with
daylight saving it is GMT +02:00. So...
I repeat: there must something wrong with your Linux setup. Qmail uses
system calls of the underlying operating system to generate the
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:28:53PM +0200, Patrick Starrenburg wrote:
% *Linux box*
% [root@linuxbox patrick]# date
% Sun May 13 17:02:55 GMT+2 2001 - Check
Your clock seems to be set wrong. According to Solaris and at least
one web page I dug up, http://www.bsdi.com/date, GMT+2 is a posix
time
Thus spake Patrick Starrenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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*Test email*
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Received: (qmail 6078 invoked from network); 13 May 2001 **18:56:24** -
[[[ Where does 18: come from ??]]]
Received: from
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:10:12PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote:
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The date 18:56:24 - is equivalent to the date 16:56:24 +0200, so
there is no error whatsoever here. The MTA prints the date as GMT,
which actually is a feature, because it allows easy comparison of dates
by
Thanks to Adrian Ho and Mark Jefferys explanations for the solution. Adrian
you were halfway there with your first reply and Mark's link pointed me in
the right direction to track down the problem. The TZ setting was GMT +2
which apparently means actually the box was calculating GMT **minus 2
