188230 - Time displayed incorrectly in header and summary view

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Eric Raymond]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Certain email messages are display with the wrong time in both the summary view
and the "header" display of the specific email.  Looking at the email header
(source) shows the right time is actually embedded in the message.

I think this may be GMT/Timezone related.

In the cases where this has been a problem, the email has originated from the
command line of a linux machine.

The following message appears with a time of 12:45, but it was sent/delivered at
9:45 PST. [Note, I've edited out domain/ip information.]  I sent it via "date |
mail"

Return-Path: <BLAH>
Delivered-To: BLAH
Received: (cpmta 970 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 09:46:36 -0800
Received: from BLAH (HELO BLAH)
  by BLAH (BLAH) with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 09:46:36 -0800
X-Received: 8 Jan 2003 17:46:36 GMT
Received: from BLAH by BLAH
          via smtpd (for BLAH [BLAH]) with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 17:50:07 UT
Received: (from BLAH)
	by BLAH (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA24393
	for BLAH; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:45:54 -0800
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:45:54 -0800
From: BLAH
Message-Id: <200301081745.JAA24393@BLAH>
To: BLAH
Wed Jan  8 09:45:54 PST 2003


FYI, this is via an IMAP server, but I suspect that's not relevant.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. From shell prompt on a linux machine, send mail (e.g., date | mail [e-mail])
2. Look at email via mozilla 


Actual Results:  
Time displayed is off (by 3 hours)

Expected Results:  
Show the right time.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Mozilla displays message times according to your timezone (that is, the timezone
configured on the computer running Mozilla).  If you are on the east coast (EST),
this is not a bug per se.  If you think the time should be displayed according to
the sender's clock, see Bug 118899.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=>WFM.  If display of the date per the sender's clock is desired, there is 
now (1.5) a preference that can be set to get that for the header display; 
see bug 118899.