Sunday March 04 2001 00:29, Sam Varshavchik wrote to All:


 >> A mail program has no way of converting -0000 to anything else than
 >> GMT.

 SV> Not true.  Using the local timezone setting, the mail program can
 SV> easily convert the time in any other timezone, including -0000, 
 SV> into
 SV> the local time.

Not, if the message contains no time zone!

Here is a qmail-generated message:

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.INTL 1:140/22 1:140/22
.REPLYADDR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.REPLYTO 1:140/22.10 UUCP
.MSGID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 95ee3556
.PID: SoupGate-OS/2 v1.05
.Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.Received: (qmail 3425 invoked by uid 520); 2 Mar 2001 01:03:16 -0000
.Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.Received: (qmail 3423 invoked by uid 0); 2 Mar 2001 01:03:16 -0000
.Date: 2 Mar 2001 01:03:16 -0000
.Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.FMPT 10
wtmp begins Thu Mar  1 12:06:49 2001
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And this one is from a sendmail machine:

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.INTL 1:140/22 1:140/22
.REPLYADDR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.REPLYTO 1:140/22.10 UUCP
.MSGID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4f1d8db8
.PID: SoupGate-OS/2 v1.05
.Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.Received: (qmail 3415 invoked by uid 520); 2 Mar 2001 01:02:57 -0000
.Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.Received: (qmail 3413 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2001 01:02:57 -0000
.Received: from kb1.ksbase.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by kb3.ksbase.com 
with
.  SMTP; 2 Mar 2001 01:02:57 -0000
.Received: (from root@localhost) by kb1.ksbase.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id 
UAA01101
.  for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:02:56 -0500
.Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:02:56 -0500
.From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.FMPT 10
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wtmp begins Thu Mar  1 09:08:51 2001
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The latter one contains the tome zone where it belongs. The qmail 
message is just plain wrong. :(

 KS


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