[lug] Timezone Problem w/ Postfix on Debian

[Riggs, Rob]

No, according to RFC 2822, "the date and time-of-day SHOULD express local
time."

"SHOULD" has a very specific meaning in RFCs. It is not a requirement, but
it should be adhered to if at all possible.

Use of descriptive timezones ("UTC", "MST", etc.) has been deprecated. Use
of "+/-nnnn" (e.g. "-0700") is the new (and unambiguous) way to express the
sender's timezone.

Internet Message Format RFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html

-Rob


-----Original Message-----
From: rm at fabula.de [mailto:rm at fabula.de]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:52 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Timezone Problem w/ Postfix on Debian


On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:43:15AM -0600, Kyle Moore wrote:
> I'm running Debian potato with the timezone correctly set. Everything
> gives me the correct time and timezone except Postfix. It timestamps
> everything with GMT. I can't find a config directive that I can set in
> Postfix to make it read the timezone from the system. Any ideas?

Timestamps where? I thought GMT (shouldn't it be UTC now?) is the
generally accepted timestamp for mails (makes sense if you need to
compare fore example the send-time from this mail with your receive
time (my local timezone is MET))

  Ralf

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> Kyle
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