Re: [gentoo-user] Cron job email time off by one hour

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On 08/05/13 00:47, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2013-05-07 11:43 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
>> Tanstaafl<tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>  wrote:
>>> Ok, I've googled and can't figure this out...
>>>
>>> /etc/timezone is set to the correct timezone (EST5EDT)
>>>
>>> Date command says the server time is correct.
>>>
>>> Cron jobs run at the correct times.
>>>
>>> EMails generated by cron have a time one hour in the past.
>>>
>>> Looking at the email header shows the correct date/time stamps, but
>>> since Thunderbird by default uses the date/time header set by the
>>> client, it shows up as arriving an hour earlier than it actually did.
>>>
>>> Anyone?
> 
>> Check the time in the headers of the email from the cronjob. It might
>> be that this is caused by a different time (zone) of the mailserver
>> or machine you are checking mail with.
> 
> Nope. It is our mail server, here in our office...
> 
> Also, I have rkhunter running on the same machine (job is in
> /etc/cron.daily, instead of the root crontab), which generates its own
> emails, and those have the correct time on them (header time matches
> what is in the log).
> 

Try googling "email header analysis" and drop the headers on one of the
sites for an analysis - helped me track down delays in a mailserver
chain in the past, but I cant remember which one I used.

BillK