Hello All,

This is exactly what i was looking for Bill.
Am using Solaris 9 as an OS, date is the normal date command on solaris
"/usr/bin/date".

What do you think??

regards,
Flaifel

Bill Cole wrote:
> In article <1161947379.021879.26710@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
> "flaifel" <flaifel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Whats the best scenario to set the time on mail servers so emails have
> > the right time when being sent??
>
> That depends on the operating system and mail client software where the
> message is created. Different systems use different mechanisms to set
> the time zone. Generally speaking, it is the mail user agent (e.g. pine,
> mailx, Outlook, Eudora, etc.) that creates the Date header. A mail
> server program, such as sendmail, won't change an existing Date header
> on mail unless specially configured to do so.
>
> > i have in my /etc/TIMEZONE file "GMT-2 "
> > when i issue the command date i get the following
> >
> > #date
> > Fri Oct 27 13:06:54 GMT 2006
> >
> > The time is correct but what is this GMT in the date???
>
> For some reason, the 'date' program you are using thinks you are in GMT.
> Some implementations of 'date' will look for $TZ in your environment,
> and if it is defined but null will use GMT.
>
> Without knowing exactly what OS you are running and which implementation
> of 'date' you're using, explaining exactly what is going on would be a
> guessing game.
>
> --
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