Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

[Pat Maddox]

I forgot to give a bit of info.  My local machine has the correct time
of 10:05PM, and the server has the correct time of 11:05PM.  If I send
an email from a mail account on the server to gmail, it has the
correct time.  If I send an email from gmail back to the server,
that's when it has the weird time offset.


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:00:49 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:38 pm, Pat Maddox wrote:
> > I've been having a weird problem lately...when I download an email
> > from my mailserver, the time is off by 7 hours.  For example, if I
> > receive an email at 9:30pm, it lists the time as 2:30pm in my mail
> > client.  I've determined that it's just a problem on received
> > messages, because if I use my client with a different mail server,
> > the time is fine, and if I send mail to another server, the time is
> > fine. It's annoying to me because messages will show up somewhere in
> > the middle of my 300+ message inbox, and users have been complaining
> > about it.  What's going on, and how do I fix it?  I'm using postfix
> > and courier-imap.
> >
> 
> For starters, it looks like you are running PDT. You have a -0700 offset
> and it should be -800. It could be on gmail.com but you can test your
> end :). So, I don't have any idea other than type "date" and see if you
> have the right date and timezone.
> 
> Kent
> 
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> Kent Stewart
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