Re: timezone errors on 2.1.8

[Mark . Burgess]

On  9 Aug, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> Previously, cfexecd would either not set the date, or it would set it as:
> 
>  Date: Mon,  9 Aug 2004 15:33:53 +1000 (EST)
> 
> (sourced from a 2.1.6 on RHEL 3ES)
> 
> Now, after upgrading to 2.1.8, the same mail header looks like
> 
>  Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:30:42 EST
> 
> (2.1.8 on RHEL 3ES)
> 
> which has the side-effect of causing mail readers to think that it's the
> USA EST and not Australian EST; so it looks like my webservers are
> configuring themselves at 6:30am tomorrow.

This is a patch from someone else to avoid spam rejection etc.
I don't know why this happens. I changed %z in a patch to %Z because the
former had no meaning on my systems in 2.1.8.
 
> Is there a good reason why cfengine sets the Date header at all?  I trust
> the MTA to set the date correctly on machine generated email; after all, I
> got cfengine to configure NTP.
> 

Again some people think you should set the date. Perhaps this should
be configurable.


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