[Mailman-Users] Incorrect timezone in mailman-generated messages

[Mark Sapiro]

On 10/20/2011 7:09 AM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote:
> 
> After the local timezone rules change the mailman sends messages with
> incorrect timezone in Date: header.
[...]
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:54:40 +0300
[...]
> We are using mailman for years without such a problem before. All other
> software run at this host now have the correct understanding the local
> time as MSK standard time = GMT+4
> 
> [root at gate2 mailman]# date '+%Z %::z'
> MSK +04:00:00


This is the part that I find strange. Mailman uses Python's
email.Utils.formatdate(localtime=1) function to get the date/time string
for the Date header. This in turn uses Python's time module to get the
actual time and timezone values and that in turn uses C library
functions to get them from the underlying OS. See
<http://docs.python.org/library/time.html>.

Try seeing in an interactive Python session what things like
email.Utils.formatdate(localtime=1), time.localtime(), time.daylight and
time.altzone return. If they are not returning what you expect, this is
a Python issue.

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