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ricochet81
2003-11-23, 17:30 PM
Hey I was wondering how other people handle timzone issues...

I live in PST(GMT -800), server is in EST, CST, MST?

Server obviously has its timezone setting, I set it to PST since the majority of the people using my server need it is PST, but what about those other users, say, checking their email from EST and the server stamps the email with a PST stamp? How do other people handle this? Especially relating to order placement times and such for a wide range of software. I suppose the applications usually adjust for locale, but what about, like sendmail? Thanks.:confused: Are mail stamps in GMT so clients can adjust according to locale?

QT
2003-11-24, 20:14 PM
The time zone doesn't matter much. Mail servers always put their time zone in the headers so whoever is looking at the header can make the proper adjustments. Mail clients don't care about the time in the headers, they normally set the received time to the time that the message was downloaded.

:)