Time Zone Problems

[Anon]

I have mail() script that I’m using to send some simple data, but when it sends the email it attaches the wrong time zone. The server time is –7.00 but the message has +7.00 attached as the time zone. There is no code in my script that gets, changes, or displays the date. Can anyone help?

[Anon]

This is set by the server. It's generated from a comparisson of your user's timezone and that of the system user timezone.

[Anon]

This seems to be a problem in a core function of php. If you try to get the server's timezone with date(), you'll also get a wrong value. mail() seems to rely on the same value.

For mail(), you can set the value manually by setting the Date-Header.

I experience this Problem on W2K Server SP2 with php as CGI running on IIS 5.

Christoph

[Anon]

You need to look at and read the docs on gettimeofday. The sneaky bit is that the value returned in the \"minuteswest\" key is the number of minutes WEST of Grenwich.

so if it reports -3600 minutes then you are 1 hr ahead (indicating that your timezone is to the East).

Works fine for SuSe, Win2K Server SP2 Apache, Win98.

Justin

[Anon]

Thank you both your post were very helpful.