Re: Issues on SC mailserver?

Grant Warkentin wrote:
> Was wondering about a note I sent myself @ 16:26 MDT - it had not
> arrived in my inbox @ 20:00 MDT. When It did arrive I checked the
> headers....
>
> Looks like Spamcop needs to fix it's time zone? (-0000 ??).

Well, there is a very very small point that if you are going to use UTC
and it isn't your local time, you should say +0000.instead of -0000, but
that is a very fine point compared to your misinterpretation of what to
do with timezone offsets.

The way I like to look at timestamps is to convert everything to UTC by
'relieving' the timezone offset.

> Received: (qmail 27389 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2005 22:31:59
> -0000 Received: from unknown (192.168.1.103)
>   by blade1.cesmail.net with QMQP; 15 Jun 2005 22:31:59 -0000

= 22:32 UTC

> Received: from pix-a-20.gov.calgary.ab.ca (HELO Mail-
> OUT.gov.calgary.ab.ca) (192.41.148.220)
>   by mailgate2.cesmail.net with SMTP; 15 Jun 2005 22:31:59 -0000

= 22:32 UTC

> Received: from cocexfe2.coc.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> by Mail-OUT.gov.calgary.ab.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id
> j5FMQHQ5014553
> for <munged>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:26:17 -0600

16:26 local with a timezone offset of 6 hours = 22:26 UTC

> For some reason this mail was delayed on spamcop for 4 hours. The logs
> on mail-out.gov.calgary.ab.ca indicate a sucessful delivery @ 16:26
> MDT DSN=2.0.0.

16:26 MDT = 22:26 UTC, since MDT [for US Mountain Daylight Time] has a
timezone offset of -0600, which means that it is 6 hours west of GMT or
Zulu or UTC, which we'll make the same for purposes of this
conversation.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin