Re: Zmailer question: y2kish bug?

[Michael Smith <michael@csuite.ns.ca>]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote:

> This due to the fact that I suspect the router may be rewriting the timezone
> now since it suddenly does not like to see mail from the "future".  That is to
> say that since the rollover to 2000 the router now seems to be pickier and
> assume that timezones west of GMT (don't forget that it thinks it is in GMT
> while I am really in MST) are reporting bogus future times and resets them 
> to the "present".  I have yet receive mail from someone east of GMT so I
> cannot confirm my theory.

I'm having roughly the same problem on ZMailer 2.99.50-s19, compiled with
egcs 1.1.2 on Solaris 2.7. No matter what time or timezone ZMailer sees
(even mine, -0400), the date header is rewritten to the current time
-0400. Fortunately, we don't seem to have your problem of the router
thinking it's in a different time zone.

I guess the workaround for this is to replace dateparse.c with the newer
version, but can we stop the router from rewriting date headers entirely?