[Qmail-scanner-general] Re: time zone

[Tulipant G. <tul...@db...>]

On 5 Dec 2000, 8:34, Jason Haar <Jas...@tr...> wrote.

> > why have i diffrent timezone in my header
> > 
> > Return-Path: <in...@eb...>
> > Delivered-To: gl...@he...
> > Received: (qmail 5772 invoked by uid 85); 4 Dec 2000 12:27:58 -0000
> > Received: from in...@eb... by hermes.element-5.de with qmail-scanner-0.94
> >  (sweep: 1.11/3.38. . Clean. Processed in 0.467545 secs); 04/12/2000 13:27:58
> > Received: from hermes.element-5.de (HELO localhost) (195.185.111.26) by
> >  hermes.element-5.de with SMTP; 4 Dec 2000 12:27:57 -0000
> > Received: from pop3.web.de by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.3.0) for
> >  gl...@he... (single-drop); Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:27:57 +0100 (CET)
> 
> 
> There is no error there:
> 
> You have: 
> 
> 4 Dec 2000 12:27:58 -0000 
> 
> and
> 
> 04/12/2000 13:27:58
> 
> Those are the same timestamp. 
> 
> This is a Qmail issue - not a Qmail-Scanner one.

False.

> Qmail returns time in UTC
> format, Qmail-Scanner and all(?) other MTAs (like sendmail) return in the
> local timezone.

Please, read the relevant RFCs/standards. UTC is the default time zone.
Your script does not use a conforming date and time specification.

From RFC 822:

     5.  DATE AND TIME SPECIFICATION

     5.1.  SYNTAX

     date-time   =  [ day "," ] date time        ; dd mm yy
                                                 ;  hh:mm:ss zzz

     day         =  "Mon"  / "Tue" /  "Wed"  / "Thu"
                 /  "Fri"  / "Sat" /  "Sun"

     date        =  1*2DIGIT month 2DIGIT        ; day month year
                                                 ;  e.g. 20 Jun 82

     month       =  "Jan"  /  "Feb" /  "Mar"  /  "Apr"
                 /  "May"  /  "Jun" /  "Jul"  /  "Aug"
                 /  "Sep"  /  "Oct" /  "Nov"  /  "Dec"

     time        =  hour zone                    ; ANSI and Military

     hour        =  2DIGIT ":" 2DIGIT [":" 2DIGIT]
                                                 ; 00:00:00 - 23:59:59

     zone        =  "UT"  / "GMT"                ; Universal Time
                                                 ; North American : UT
                 /  "EST" / "EDT"                ;  Eastern:  - 5/ - 4
                 /  "CST" / "CDT"                ;  Central:  - 6/ - 5
                 /  "MST" / "MDT"                ;  Mountain: - 7/ - 6
                 /  "PST" / "PDT"                ;  Pacific:  - 8/ - 7
                 /  1ALPHA                       ; Military: Z = UT;
                                                 ;  A:-1; (J not used)
                                                 ;  M:-12; N:+1; Y:+12
                 / ( ("+" / "-") 4DIGIT )        ; Local differential
                                                 ;  hours+min. (HHMM)

     5.2.  SEMANTICS

          If included, day-of-week must be the day implied by the date
     specification.

          Time zone may be indicated in several ways.  "UT" is Univer-
     sal  Time  (formerly called "Greenwich Mean Time"); "GMT" is per-
     mitted as a reference to Universal Time.  The  military  standard
     uses  a  single  character for each zone.  "Z" is Universal Time.
     "A" indicates one hour earlier, and "M" indicates 12  hours  ear-
     lier;  "N"  is  one  hour  later, and "Y" is 12 hours later.  The
     letter "J" is not used.  The other remaining two forms are  taken
     from ANSI standard X3.51-1975.  One allows explicit indication of
     the amount of offset from UT; the other uses  common  3-character
     strings for indicating time zones in North America.