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Date:      Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:06:29 -0700
From:      Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours
Message-ID:  <810a540e0502262106759e44e9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200502262100.49934.kstewart@owt.com>
References:  <810a540e05022620381e127bf0@mail.gmail.com> <200502262100.49934.kstewart@owt.com>

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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@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
> 
> --
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 
> http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
>



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