RE: SNDEMAIL time incorrect

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:



H BndDir( 'QC2LE' )

.

.

.

D time_t s 10i 0

D CurrentTime Pr 10i 0 ExtProc( 'time' )

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 =

C 'Date: ' + %str(TimeToString(time_t) )



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.





But, Outlook shows the time as:



Tue 11/04/2008 18:45







Any ideas why the time is off by 6 hours? Am I not formatting the time

correctly?



John McKee



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