1507949 - Forwarded mail has the wrong date

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 502741

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[luiscla27]

Attachment: thunderbird wrong date.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the attached mail
2. Press the "fwd" button



Actual results:

For some reason it says that the original date is "Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:46:27 +0000" instead of "Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:46:27 +0000"

Opening the same from Outlook shows the correct date, 

I've attached a video and the mail exported from Thunderbird (EML) and Outlook (MSG).


Expected results:

The mail should show the correct date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:46:27 +0000

Comment 1

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to luiscla27 from comment #0)
> Created attachment 9025797 [details]
> thunderbird wrong date.zip

The mail you have sent, has the date header:

| Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:42:10 -0600

That is 15:42 in your local timezone (-> -0600).

The mail you got back has the date header:

| Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:46:27 +0000

That describes the same point of time just in a different time zone (-> +0000).

The conversion has been made by the mail server.

If TB forwards a mail he uses the date header as it was written in the received mail.

Specifying the time zone is important because the sender may have been in a completely different time zone.

However, I can't tell you why the server changed the timezone.

> Actual results:
> 
> For some reason it says that the original date is "Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:46:27
> +0000" instead of "Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:46:27 +0000"

The later time would be wrong!

If I understand you correctly, you want the date header of a forwarded mail, is written in your local time zone.

| Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:42:10 -0600

That would be an enhancement request.
=> Dupe of bug 502741

Comment 2

[luiscla27]

Ok! you understood correctly,

I didn't noticed the -0600 at the sent mail so i thought this was a bug (because MSOutlook showed the FWD date using my local time zone).

Bug 502741 is 10 years old so i guess the reporter is be dead by now :D,
Thank you for your quick answer Alfred,