Thunderbird timestamp ignoring timezone information set in Windows
I've seen similar questions where the time on emails does not reflect the time on the local computer. The answer always is some variation of, 'Thunderbird uses the local clock settings so check there.'
I've done that. I have a Windows 7 computer with a timezone for GMT +10 (Brisbane, Australia) set in the right place. My mail is being stamped without the +10 adjustment. I send an email to my thunderbird mailbox at 9:50PM on Friday, 27th of November and it appears with a date of 11:50AM on the same day.
I have followed the guide at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Time_and_time_zone_settings and checked in Firefox if the time is set correctly and the code returns the correct times. What else can I check/do? This has problem has been driving me crazy for a long time.
I am running Thunderbird 38.4.0 and Windows 7 Pro 64bit. I have had this problem through many versions (lost track).
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I had this issue with a Bigpond mail account. Their spam filtering software dropped the time offset. That was some years ago. The vegetable that answered the phone at Bigpond insisted the problem was Outlook. I ave not anything real since.
What mail provider are you using?
Doesn't seem to matter which domain. I have a couple of my own run by non-corporate types and they are all affected by this issue. For my primary domain, the guy who is hosting even set my configuration to the Brisbane timezone but it hasn't made a difference for my end. It is hosted in Canada, I think, and being picked up in Australia. My wife has a Linux box running Thunderbird and doesn't have this issue for the same domain.
Shucks, my Windows 7 computer can't even get timestamps right in its own filesystem. And it's not a neat multiple number of whole hours as you'd expect if it was a timezone setting error.
Do ordinary files in your filesystem, as viewed in Windows Explorer, all have correct timestamps?
I just created a new file and the timestamp looks fine and correct.
grab the headers from a mail (Ctrl+)U) and post then.... might provide some insight. But first hold the shift key while starting Thunderbird and continue in safe mode when prompted. Does that have an impact?
Started in safe mode with no difference, headers below. I've changed the identifying addresses. Hopefully this doesn't change anyone's ability to help me analyze this issue. Thanks for your time.
Return-Path: <alan@remotedomain.com> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on robin X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,TVD_SPACE_RATIO, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-Original-To: alan@localpc.com Delivered-To: alan@localpc.com Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F7324020E for <alan@localpc.com>; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:32:32 -0500 (EST) To: Alan <alan@localpc.com> From: Alan <alan@remotedomain.com> Subject: monday ~9:34am Message-ID: <565B8B31.4060402@remotedomain.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 23:33:05 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/38.4.0
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Anybody have any new thoughts on my problem? Thanks for your time.