[SM-USERS] SM displays GMT timezone even though server's date is correct on EST

[Chris H. <hoo...@bi...>]

I found a few things related to this on google, in the SM documentation,
and on the archives for the list, but nothing that answered the question.

I have 3 servers that are very similar. Each is a Sun E250 running
Solaris 9. Call them A, B, & C, configured last August, November and
this January respectively. A has php 5.0.2 and squirrelmail 1.4.4. It
has moderate useage and doesn't use php for other things. B has php
4.4.2 and squirrelmail 1.4.6. It has very light usage of mail, but
heavier usage of the web and uses php extensively. C has php 4.4.2 and
squirrelmail 1.4.6 also. It has heavy useage of mail, and moderate
useage of the web with light use of php for the web.

I personally built all 3 servers, secured them, configured ntp and all
applications. `date` on all 3 reports the time and date correctly.

Squirrelmail on A and C reports time as GMT. In the mail headers it puts
a line that reports GMT. The subsequent line from sendmail reports the
time in EST. On the Web page, left panel, Squirrelmail reports the time
as GMT but does not indicate that it is GMT -- it's simply 5 hours later
than one would expect.

Squirrelmail on B reports time as EST.

I recently updated php and Squirrelmail on B and C and followed
identical procedures on both.

I did not update A, because the php 5.1.2 configure script failed.
Separate issue, but explains the difference in versions.

If I go to my personal options on the web connection and specify a time
zone of America/New_York, I get the correct display of time for myself.
However, this does not fix the problem for all my users. I also cannot
say if this is a new problem or an old problem. Nobody reported it until
this week. I also looked at some pref files in smdata on all 3 and
didn't see any specifications of time zones.

Seems like there must be some sort of global configuration somewhere
that controls this. But, I couldn't find it. I even poked around in
Squirrelmail's code a bit, but I'm not a php programmer.


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