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Bug #3248 mail function putting wrong timezone info in message header?
Submitted: 2000-01-18 19:29 UTC Modified: 2002-06-18 18:13 UTC
From: chris at bcl dot co dot nz Assigned: hholzgra (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Mail related
PHP Version: 4.0 Beta 3 OS: Windows NT
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-01-18 19:29 UTC] chris at bcl dot co dot nz 
Not sure if this is really a PHP problem or just Microsoft at work, but
sending email using the "mail" function seems to give incorrect
timezone info in the "Date:" header. eg:

Received:  from becks by macs.wn.bcl.co.nz; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:11:34 +1300 (NZDT)

(in this case becks=NT, macs=Unix - +1300 NZDT is correct)

Message-ID:  <200001190011.NAA19048@macs.wn.bcl.co.nz>
Date:             Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:11:35 -1200

-1200 is wrong.

The NT timezone is set to +12:00 Auckland/Wellington, with Daylight saving enabled.

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 [2000-07-25 20:27 UTC] zak@php.net 
As far as I can tell from the source code, PHP is not responsible for generating the email message headers.

Do other messages generated by the same server have the correct timezone information?
 [2000-07-25 21:26 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
implementation for mail on microsoft platforms
is in win32/sendmail.c

and in there is generation code for generating
 a Date: header if none was supplied by mail()
function ( see function PostHeader() )
 [2001-11-22 18:07 UTC] venaas@php.net 
Not sure if it helps, but I have a nearly untested patch
that computes the offset using the diff between
php_localtime_r() and php_gmtime_r(). I never understood
where _timezone came from anyway.
 [2001-11-28 08:27 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
dup of #8909
 [2002-06-18 18:13 UTC] sniper@php.net 
The #8909 was closed.
 
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