Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

Kent Stewart kstewart at owt.com
Sun Feb 27 05:00:51 GMT 2005


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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