[Bug 150620] New: some mails show with unknown date in message list
jedd at progsoc.org
jedd at progsoc.org
Tue Oct 9 09:32:47 BST 2007
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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150620
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.
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