Re: Date Conundrum

On Thursday 03 December 2009 14:54:34 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 03 December 2009 14:16:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 December 2009 12:56:13 James Kerr wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 December 2009 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 03 December 2009 11:23:56 James Kerr wrote:
> > > > > I had a Netgear router which behaved like that. IIRC from about
> > > > > September each year (it may have been earlier), until the end of
> > > > > the year, it would add a month to the date on emails that it
> > > > > originated. In January it would revert to using the correct
> > > > > month. There may be a firmware update available to rectify that.
> > > >
> > > > I'll certainly look into that.
> > > >
> > > > > I don't recall seeing any similar anomaly in emails that were not
> > > > > originated by the router.
> > > >
> > > > The first message in the thread, where I quoted full headers, came
> > > >  through the router, but didn't originate from it.
> > >
> > > I'm no expert in interpreting email headers, but this looks to me like
> > > the header from a Netgear router's email message:
> > >
> > > Date: Wed,2 (null) 2009 18:28:55 -0000 (GMT Daylight Time)
> > >  From: [email protected]
> > >  Subject: NETGEAR *Security Alert* [fc:51:9d]
> > >  To: [email protected]
> >
> > Apologies.  I had been comparing the new one with that one, and pasted
> > from the wrong one.  Unfortunately, Expiry has removed the new one, and
> > since it was apparently 30 years old, it didn't survive in my Trash
> > folder either, so I'll have to wait to see if I get a similar offer from
> > the company in the next few days.
> 
> The plot thickens!  I just got another offer from the same company, and on
>  the message list it showed 1st January 1970, so I clicked on it, before
>  opening full headers - and the date immediately changed to today's date! 
>  I do seem to have seen some odd things in kde-pim, just recently :-) 
>  Anyway, I checked the header, and can't see anything strange there.  The
>  date of sending appears to be Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:00:58 +0000, so I
>  can't imagine why that display problem occurred.  FWIW, this is Kontact
>  4.3.3 with KMail 1.12.3
> 
I think tomorrow will have the last of a series of offers, so if this happens 
again tomorrow I'll get a screenshot before clicking on the date - I know it 
just sounds too unbelievab le - I wouldn't believe it without seeing it, 
either!

Anne
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