> Gunnar_Frenzel@web.de wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have a FreeBSD 6.0 system with Postfix v2.2.5 and Courier-IMAP. All
>> is working fine so far, but the mails from the Mail Delivery System
>> (e.g. undelivered mail notifications etc.) has a date of 1.1.1980.
>> Where do I have to configfure postfix to get the right date and time
>> information in these mails?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Gunnar
>>
Greg Hackney wrote:
>
> Gunnar,
>
> Is the time/date displayed correctly with the system "date" command?
>
> If yes, then usually the only other thing you have to worry about
> with Postfix, is the case where Postfix is configured to run chroot'ed:
> there needs to be
> a copy of /etc/localtime in the chroot'ed etc directory (and perhaps
> some other
> supporting items in the chroot'ed lib, bin, or etc).
>
> If all that is okay, it's probably a software bug somewhere. Kind of weird
> that it's displaying the UNIX Epoch date of 1-1-1980.
>
> --
> Greg
>
>

The UNIX Epoch date is 1-1-1970. The 1-1-1980 date would refer to an IBM
XT BIOS from the very beginning of the PC. I'm sure the OP isn't using
an 8088, but that date was used until the early i586/Pentium I releases
(about 1994).

He may have a dead cmos battery on an older mainboard or he may just
need to set the system/hardware time.

More on date:

http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/...tion.date.html

Michael

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