Thank you for your reply.
The question boils down to: why is SM on server B reporting time
correctly in EST, while SM on A and C drop out to GMT? The configuration
of B and C would seem to be nearly identical, while A is odd server out
with different versions of php and SM. None of them are on php 5.1.x
yet. Server A is on php 5.0.2.
I know that there are preferences individual users can set to fix this.
But, since I have one server that seems to be doing it correctly, I'd
like to know why and then fix the others. I have hundreds of users, and
getting them all to "fix their settings" can be a bit of a problem.
I've been looking at the php configurations. If I do `php -i | less`, I
find that all three servers have the same group of settings for TZ:
TZ => US/Eastern
_SERVER["TZ"] => US/Eastern
_ENV["TZ"] => US/Eastern
I haven't been able to find any differences that I can point to as
possibly causing 2 servers to report GMT while the other 1 reports EST.
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Erdös 4
Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
>> I found a few things related to this on google, in the SM documentation,
>> and on the archives for the list, but nothing that answered the question.
>>
>> I have 3 servers that are very similar. Each is a Sun E250 running
>> Solaris 9. Call them A, B, & C, configured last August, November and
>> this January respectively. A has php 5.0.2 and squirrelmail 1.4.4. It has
>> moderate useage and doesn't use php for other things. B has php 4.4.2 and
>> squirrelmail 1.4.6. It has very light usage of mail, but heavier usage of
>> the web and uses php extensively. C has php 4.4.2 and squirrelmail 1.4.6
>> also. It has heavy useage of mail, and moderate useage of the web with
>> light use of php for the web.
>>
>> I personally built all 3 servers, secured them, configured ntp and all
>> applications. `date` on all 3 reports the time and date correctly.
>>
>> Squirrelmail on A and C reports time as GMT. In the mail headers it puts
>> a line that reports GMT. The subsequent line from sendmail reports the time
>> in EST. On the Web page, left panel, Squirrelmail reports the time as GMT
>> but does not indicate that it is GMT -- it's simply 5 hours later than one
>> would expect.
>>
>
> Switch to international time format in folder prefs and see reported time
> zone.
>
>
>> Squirrelmail on B reports time as EST.
>>
>>
>> I recently updated php and Squirrelmail on B and C and followed
>> identical procedures on both.
>>
>> I did not update A, because the php 5.1.2 configure script failed.
>> Separate issue, but explains the difference in versions.
>>
>>
>> If I go to my personal options on the web connection and specify a time
>> zone of America/New_York, I get the correct display of time for myself.
>> However, this does not fix the problem for all my users. I also cannot
>> say if this is a new problem or an old problem. Nobody reported it until
>> this week. I also looked at some pref files in smdata on all 3 and didn't
>> see any specifications of time zones.
>>
>
> Then SquirrelMail is running in default time zone and PHP functions fail
> to report your server's time zone correctly.
>
>
>> Seems like there must be some sort of global configuration somewhere
>> that controls this. But, I couldn't find it. I even poked around in
>> Squirrelmail's code a bit, but I'm not a php programmer.
>>
>
> SquirrelMail does not have global time zone configuration option. It uses
> your server's time zone by default. If you use PHP 5.1.x - date functions
> are rewritten and SquirrelMail does not support
> date_default_timezone_set() function yet.
>
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