82555 - Time shown in "date" column is incorrect

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Thibault G.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010522
BuildID:    2001052213

The time shown in the "date" column of mail front end is wrong :
it seems to be the send time (the one we can read in the mail source)
 - 6 hours.
(at least when the mail is sent and received in the same time zone).

That used not to occur in older versions (such as 2001042806).

You must know that I live in France, and the time zone delay between
USA (east cost) and France is .. 6 hours !
(If I'm not mistaken ... :)) )

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Ask for a french friend to send you a mail
2.Go to France, visit Paris, drink some wine :)),
3.retreive your mail and take a look at both the time shown
and the time in the mail source.

Actual Results:  Time shown = real time - 6 hours

Expected Results:  Handle correctly the time zones so as to show the correct
send time.

Comment 1

[Thibault G.]

Attachment: This mail is shown as sent at "13:14" by mail component

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

*** Bug 82554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jacek Piskozub]

Reporter (Thibault): which message do you mean? The one at the top of your
attachment has a very non-standard header (it should begin with a From: field).
Copied as a Mozilla mail folder it actually is not recognsed as a message
(expected, due to the corrupted header). The one cited as "The original message"
has a Date: field which is marked as cited text and shows a time off by the 6
hours (-4 instead of +2) you write about. I suspect this is the reason of the
time you see.

I am 90% sure it is an INVALID bug. Convince me it is not by explaining which
message do you mean and sending a simpler attachment of a message with a correct
header which shows wrong time on your Mozilla.

Comment 4

[Thibault G.]

Just sorry ... I saved the mail, not the source ...
But this one should be good ...
(see new attachment).

And it is not a mail  I get wrong, but *every* mail sent to me
(at least from France), which would mean it is not an invalid
header file.
And older moz releases work just fine with them ...

If you need other erroneous mails, just tell me !

Comment 5

[Thibault G.]

Attachment: The source of the mail

Comment 6

[Jacek Piskozub]

Thibault, you have your time off by 6 hours. Look at this email from you whichis
embedded in the example you send:

>Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 21:12:15 -0400
>De: Thibault Godouet <[e-mail]>
>A: minitom <[e-mail]>

I understand that "de" means "from", and "a" means "to". You send mail six hours
off and see every mail you see six hours off. The date in your time zone should
say "20 May 2001 21:12:15 +0200". It is either wrong timezone in Control Panel |
Date&Time or a "SET TMZ=" setting in your autoexec.bat (I've seen that happen).
Mail programs are supposed to obey this setting, this is a correct behavior.

Marking INVALID.

Comment 7

[Thibault G.]

It was invalid ... just sorry about that :)) !

Comment 8

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Invalid.