Re: [Evolution] Future emails

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

that setting is calendar-only. the mailer uses the system time and the 
system timezone

Jeremey Wise wrote:

> Hmm. Maybe the issue is that the time zone is set to New_York but no
> mention of Daylight savings time etc. 
>
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 22:52 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
>  
>
> > Umm, i showed direct evidence that it wasn't anything to do with
> > evolution.
> >
> > "Date:" is the only header evolution creates, and they are all correct.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:21 -0400, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > So the question still stands. What is the resolution to fix Evolution.
> > > As you saw in the email the time offset is wrong. I can't be the system
> > > as I have also done a test of mail directly from the OS and it shows up
> > > fine from a timeset ( echo stupid > mail -s test_from_SuSE_Shell
> > > jeremey wise agilysys com) 
> > >
> > > All tests show that my system and OS time and the server time is not the
> > > issue. Evolution seems to continue some kind of offset that causes this
> > > issue.
> > >
> > > so where is this offset change coming from? 
> > > 23 Aug 2005
> > > 11:11:14 -0500
> > > 11:10:47 -0400
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:08 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Hmm, both of those messages are identical within a few minutes.
> > > >
> > > > What time, exactly, are you talking about?
> > > >
> > > > Also, FWIW, the mailer only uses your system timezone.
> > > >
> > > > > From the 'bad' message:
> > > >
> > > > Received: from 172.27.16.164 ([172.27.16.164]) by dcex1.pios.com
> > > >        ([172.25.15.51]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Tue,
> > > > 23 Aug 2005
> > > >        11:11:14 -0500
> > > >
> > > > ^^ this machine has added 1 hour
> > > >
> > > > Received: from wizej by DCEX1.pios.com; 23 Aug 2005 11:11:15 -0400
> > > >
> > > > ^^ this machine hasn't
> > > >
> > > > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:11:14 -0400
> > > >
> > > > ^^ and evolution matches it
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > From the 'good' message
> > > >
> > > > Received: by dcex1  id <01C5A7F4 D7899254 dcex1>; Tue, 23 Aug 2005
> > > > 11:10:47
> > > >        -0400
> > > > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:10:17 -0400
> > > >
> > > > ^^ they both have matching dates and timezones.
> > > >
> > > > The received header is created by the receiving machine, so since the
> > > > first receiver in the first message has assigned a different timezone,
> > > > i'd say that is at fault.  Either that, or all the other machines are.
> > > >
> > > > BTW it's definitely.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:14 -0400, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > I have an issue that I have now have emails showing up 1hour in the
> > > > > future. This is an issue as all emails are CC'd into a Notes DB to track
> > > > > customer history of email threads etc, and it breaks the DB ordering if
> > > > > someone else answers questions.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have verified that if I use OWA via Firefox on my SuSE box it works
> > > > > fine. I have verified that my time zone on the OS level is set to
> > > > > New_York EDT and NTP is functioning correctly. I have verified settings
> > > > > in evolution are using EST New_York.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have verified that if I parse the "sent" mail the time stamp is
> > > > > correct but it is definatly an evolution thing. 
> > > > >
> > > > > It would appear if you parse the emails (attached) that Evolution is not
> > > > > doing the correct offset for daylight savings when it sends email.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > My time settings in Edit->Preferances->Calendar and Tasks-> Time Zone
> > > > > is :America/New_York
> > > > >
> > > > > No option for Daylight or no Daylight specifically.
> > > > >
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