[Bug 150620] New: some mails show with unknown date in message list

[jedd at progsoc.org]

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           Summary: some mails show with unknown date in message list
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: jedd progsoc org


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Howdi,

I know there's a few other 'I've got a weird date format and kmail should handle it' bugs (most of which I think are a bit misguided - I'd be embarrassed if my mail client assumed a dash meant a zero), but this one looks slightly different to any other reports I could find on b.k.o.

My ISP (internode (.au)) is pretty good with things GNU/Linux-ish (mirrors, advocacy, etc) and I'm guessing they, like every other ISP, use this platform widely .. so it was odd when I saw an 'unknown' in the date field on just one of their recent billing notices.  I'm sure these are auto-generated, and the code doesn't change much from month to month, which just made it odder.

Anyhoo, I checked my stash of other invoices from these guys, and notice that I've had three similarly afflicted messages in the past three years - always in October.  This is particularly weird, and hints that the date format confuses something, somewhere, in kmail.

The relevant line from the headers of the four messages:
 Date: 08 OCT 05 17:58:28 UT
 Date: 08 OCT 06 21:51:27 UT
 Date: 18 OCT 06 11:27:29 UT
 Date: 08 OCT 07 18:01:46 UT

Last month's shows fine (given my locale - nsw.au) as 2007-09-09 8:06am in kmail, with the header showing:
 Date: 08 SEP 07 22:06:36 UT

Previous months are of the same format, and all show up fine.

This makes me suspect something weird with an octal interpretation, though being about as knowledgable with 2822 as I am with the kmail source, I can't comment further.

So I won't.  Other than to offer any other headers or more info if you want 'em.