Date header

Date header

[Norman Walsh]

I just noticed (actually someone else noticed) that the date
header inserted into outgoing mail by Gnus is way off.  I'm
getting dates of the form

  Date: 06 Sep 1997 10:49:38 -0700

Unfortunately, I live in EST so that should be -0500 (right?)
and 10:49:38 is the correct _local_ time so it shouldn't be
there at all.

I searched through the manuals and the FAQ but didn't see how
to change this.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

(Some details, I'm running under NT with .65.  I have $TZ set to
EST5EDT because that's what the Cygnus Win32 distribution
instructed me to do.)

TIA,
--norm

Re: Date header

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:

> I just noticed (actually someone else noticed) that the date
> header inserted into outgoing mail by Gnus is way off.  I'm
> getting dates of the form
> 
>   Date: 06 Sep 1997 10:49:38 -0700
> 
> Unfortunately, I live in EST so that should be -0500 (right?)

Nope.  It's -0600, but if your daylight savings time is off-synch,
then you{ll get -0700, I think.

> and 10:49:38 is the correct _local_ time so it shouldn't be
> there at all.

No, it's correct.  The "-0700" says how much your local time deviates
from UT, not the other way around.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Date header

[Edward J. Sabol]

Excerpts from mail: (08-Sep-97) Re: Date header by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
> Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:
>> I just noticed (actually someone else noticed) that the date
>> header inserted into outgoing mail by Gnus is way off.  I'm
>> getting dates of the form
>> 
>> Date: 06 Sep 1997 10:49:38 -0700
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I live in EST so that should be -0500 (right?)
>
> Nope.  It's -0600, but if your daylight savings time is off-synch,
> then you{ll get -0700, I think.

Um, no. EST is -0500 and EDT is -0400.

Re: Date header

[Jason R Mastaler]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > I just noticed (actually someone else noticed) that the date
> > header inserted into outgoing mail by Gnus is way off.  I'm
> > getting dates of the form
> > 
> >   Date: 06 Sep 1997 10:49:38 -0700
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I live in EST so that should be -0500 (right?)
> 
> Nope.  It's -0600, but if your daylight savings time is off-synch,
> then you{ll get -0700, I think.

But he in on Eastern time, so the off-synch should be -0400 (EDT).  I
think that is what he is talking about.  -0600 is Mountain Time, -0700
is Pacific Time currently.

   Jason R. Mastaler                      jason@mastaler.com
 

Re: Date header

[C. R. Oldham]

Jason R Mastaler wrote:
> -0600 is Mountain Time, -0700 is Pacific Time currently.

Nope--not for us in AZ.  -0600 is Mountain Daylight Time, -0700 is
Mountain Standard Time.

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