Topic: Time Differences?

[sbaker712]

Ever since the time change I have had a little problem but it is not really affecting the server in any way. What is happening is I have an SME 7.0 box that is running on configured server network time (pool.ntp.org). The time in all my logs and the server all show the correct time. But when I am receiving email it is telling me that it is an hour behind the current time. Has anyone else experienced this time of issue? Or is this really a bug?

[bpivk]

Some webmails have the option to set the local time.
You you use a client or webmail?

[sbaker712]

i have users using everything from Thunderbird (v1.5.0.10) to MS outlook 2000, and 2003. the problem only seems to occur on the clients as webmail is  showing the correct time. but for the life of me i have not seen a place in either MS outlook or Thunderbird to set the time on the clients.

[shell]

Just a thought - are the regional settings on the desktops the same as the server time settings?  Perhaps the clients are trying to be clever - ie your computer os says its in a different timezone, so when the header info on the mail comes thru correctly the client is adding / subtracting the std time difference in zones?

The email header should give you a clear indication of the std time + or - calculation.

[mike_mattos]

I'm suspicious that Daylight time is the culprit, I notice that even though SME command line TIME is correct, my XP is correct ( both Eastern DST ), when I copy files via WinSCP3 they periodically arrive an hour earlier or later than expected!  ( OK, they seem to be TIMESTAMPED an hour off! )

And of course it isn't happening today!

I do know that they work station was using the SME box as its timeserver.

It's been like this for as long as I can remember, I assumed it was the same people who gave us floppy a&b printers LPT1& LPT2 , hard drives  0 and 1 at it again!

I've seen these things get ugly , for example w98 and XP called the default tray on an HP printer 0 and 1, which was a real bug if you STORED the tray for each paper type in a shared lookup on an accounting application!