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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cron job email time off by one hour
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 17:43:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92038e9d-7368-4908-bfc6-8c7dd292d432@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51891057.9050606@libertytrek.org>

Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>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.

--
Joost
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-07 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-07 14:31 [gentoo-user] Cron job email time off by one hour Tanstaafl
2013-05-07 14:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-07 15:01   ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-07 15:43 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2013-05-07 16:47   ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-07 22:08     ` William Kenworthy
2013-05-08 10:43       ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-08  6:52     ` Alan McKinnon

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