banjo Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Here is a noobie question. When I receive messages in Kmail, the receive time has four hours added to it. The sent times in the messages seem to be correct, given their locations of origin.I cannot find anywhere to set a locale in the settings dialogs. I assume that it is adding four hours to my system clock. Any ideas or clues about what I can do to fix this. Thanks in advance Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 banjo, KMail syncs it's time with your system/KDE clock time. is your clock showing the correct time? you can adjust the time format in KMail by opening KMail, click "settings", click "configure KMail", click "appearance", click the "headers" tab, & look down to where it says "date display". as far as i know, you can't set the time, per se, via KMail. make sure your system/KDE time is correct. got company, gotta run......... Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted August 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2003 Thanks for the feedback. My clock seems to be OK and correct. At least, that is what it is showing in the corner of the screen. Also, the outgoing messages are correctly timestamped. The incoming messages also seem to be correctly timestamped by the sender. It is just the "recieved" time in my inbox that is off by four hours. I am not sure that I really understand what that number is supposed to mean anyway. Received by what? There are numerous receipt times in the headers. Maybe the GMT offset is being used incorrectly or something. I tried reformatting the timestamp output, but that just reformats the incorrect data. Not a big deal. I will simply ignore that field for now. Thanks again Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted September 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2003 So, after all this time I have finally figured out what Kmail is doing with the clock. Doh! After poking around at the system clock again I found that the computer was set up for UCT instead of Eastern Time Zone. So it was adding the four hours to translate into "local" time. I know that I told Mandrake to use Eastern time zone at install time!!....... I could swear that it asked and I said "Eastern"......but I guess it didn't take............... Anyway, I set the clock to Eastern time zone, and it works great now. Thanks to all for the help. Linux rules! Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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