There's always a two-hour difference in getmail's log: getmail finished for fa581627@SKYNET.BE@pop.skynet.be:110 gt30 mailhandler $ date Mon Sep 22 20:02:27 CEST 2003 gt30 mailhandler $ cat getmail.log 22 Sep 2003 18:00:17 STAT: 0 messages 0 octets ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.getmail 2.verify getmail's log file 3.compare to the time as by the date command Actual Results: getmail's time reporting is two hours off. That's annoying. Expected Results: It should log the right time in its log file. erik@linuxpresario erik $ emerge -p getmail These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] net-mail/getmail-3.1.3
not a bug, but a feaure ;) "Version 3.1.3 23 April 2003 -message logging inconsistently used local time; changed to GMT for consistency. Thanks to Markus Vetter for the report." (from changelog)