Hi Everyone,
I apologize for this rather off base question, but I figure you folks have
seen it all and maybe someone has had experience with this.
The problem:
I have an Elm (version 2.4 PL25) user who complains every month that at
month end, his messages don't arrive in his mailbox in the proper order.
The cause seems to be that the time ZONE stamp is incorrect and in some
cases nonsensical (for example one said the time zone was +6700).
In experimenting on my machine, I see that the time zone stamp comes from
the machine on which the message was composed, but he is composing his
message on our Alpha 1000 and the time zone on it is set correctly to EST.
The time zone is also set correctly on our DNS server (although we
discovered that the year isn't).
Is it possible that Elm has a bug in it that kicks in at month end? Has
anyone else ever seen or heard of this? I don't want to blame the problem
on ELM unless it is warranted. We're running DU4.0b, BTW.
Of course, the obvious question in all of this is "who cares?"...just read
the message and get on with it. But this particular user is rather vocal
about such things and will make my life miserable (on a very predictable
monthly basis) until I come up with a reasonable explanation.
Your help will be GREATLY appreciated.
Debby Quayle
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Debbora (Debby) Bartel Quayle
Asst. Dir.ITS, Technical Support Services/
Help Desk & E-mail Administration
Information Technology Services Department
Hamilton College (315) 859-4031 dquayle_at_hamilton.edu
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Received on Fri Apr 03 1998 - 17:12:32 NZST