RE: SNDEMAIL time incorrect

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Ulrich Krueger <ukr@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> John,
>
> Those 6 hours appear to be the difference between GMT and Eastern Time Zone.
>
> Can you (re-)format the mdatetime - "Date: ..." - string exactly as
>
>      Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:44:39 -0600
>
> including the time zone offset "-0600" or "EDT" or "EST"?
I tried sending two emails after removing the Date: header.  Neither email has
appeared.  Likely died somewhere.

Finally ran the thing in debug and looked at the Date header.  It currently
looks like this:

Date: Wed Nov  5 15:12:16 2008

Not sure why I thought the functions I used put the time zone 
information on it,
but that is clearly not there.

John McKee

> Outlook (or any other email software) needs to be able to determine the time
> zone. Otherwise it defaults to GMT.
>
>
>
> Alternatively, the first SMTP mail server that processes your email will
> insert a correctly formatted Date: - stamp, if your message does not contain
> a Date: stamp. Try and see what happens if you omit it from your message.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ulrich Krueger
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John McKee
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 08:39
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: SNDEMAIL time incorrect
>
>
>
> We still use the ancient SNDEMAIL command.  Just for simple error messages.
>
>
>
> My issue is that when an email is received, the time in the email header
> lags by
>
> six hours.  I tried to fix it some time back, but the time is still wrong.
>
>
>
> Here is how I am generating the date:
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>
>
> H    BndDir( 'QC2LE' )
>
> .
>
> .
>
> .
>
> D time_t          s             10i 0
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> D CurrentTime     Pr            10i 0 ExtProc( 'time' )
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> D TimeToString    Pr              *   ExtProc( 'ctime' )
>
> D   ElapTime                    10i 0 value.
>
> .
>
> .
>
> c*  get time in seconds since Jan 1, 1970
>
> c                   eval      time_t = CurrentTime
>
>
>
> C                   eval      mdatetime =
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> C                             'Date: ' + %str(TimeToString(time_t) )
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>
>
> When I look at the option on a received email (using Outlook), the time is
>
> showing as this in the header:   Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:44:39 -0600
>
>
>
> The Date entry in the header looks like this, as far as I can copy:
>
>
>
> Wed Nov  5 00:44:37 2008.
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>
>
>
>
> But, Outlook shows the time as:
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>
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> Tue 11/04/2008 18:45
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> Any ideas why the time is off by 6 hours?  Am I not formatting the time
>
> correctly?
>
>
>
> John McKee
>
>
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