339849 - received messages time stamp either has no date or wrong date

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Ed Partridge]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

messages recieved today are marked 2/2/2040 or they just have the time (the correct time)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[jwq]

 Thunderbird displays the time only for messages less than one day old by default, you can change the display by following these instructions <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format>.

 Messages which have a datestamp of 2/2/2040 are a different matter. Could you please use View -> Message Source to check the headers of such messages and see whether the "Date:" header is present and whether it shows a reasonable date and time?

 If the "Date:" header is missing, then the behaviour you see might be a variant of Bug 73565 (and thus a duplicate). If the "Date:" header of the email is incorrect, then this is not a bug in Thunderbird (and thus invalid).

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The 'Received date' (as opposed to the Date: header) currently is not displayed anywhere.  See bug 166254, bug 194585, bug 216033.

Comment 3

[Ed Partridge]

Thanks for the feedback.  This was probably not a bug.  The 2040 date seems to have come from the sender's computer and I didn't realize that the date was not displayed for messages less than 1 day old.