[imp] Universal Time problem

[Matthew Zaleski]

Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz <at> uni-konstanz.de> writes:

> 
> Hello Volker Then,
> 
> you wrote:
> > Some messages in the inbox view
> > show a date of 1. Jan 1970, nevertheless messages are sorted correctly  
> > by date. I can see
> > no problem with the messages' headers:
> > 
> > Date: 08 Aug 2007 12:27:42 UT
> 
> According to RFC 2822, Section 3.3
> <http://rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/2822/chapter3.html#sub3>,
> the time zone is an obsolete format. In current format,
> that date would read:
>    Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:27:42 +0200
> 
> RFC 2822, Section 4, says:
> > Though some of these syntactic forms MUST NOT be generated according
> > to the grammar in section 3, they MUST be accepted and parsed by a con-
> > formant receiver.
> 
> Hence, I deem it a bug if Imp does not correctly interprete that date.
> If you can reproduce that bug with two messages only differing
> in the date format (and the message-id, of course), you should
> file a bug report.
> 
> Best wishes,
>    Otto Stolz
> 

Sorry to be dragging up an old thread but I ran into this problem with
spamcop.net's webmail package and traced back to IMP as a potential source of
the problem.  I too had read RFC 822 and 2822 when I ran into this problem and
as stated above, 2822 says a client needs to properly deal with these obsoleted
time formats (it just can't generate new email with the old formats).

Is Otto a developer of IMP?  His response conflicts with this bug report's
response: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/5717 basically claiming it isn't a bug.

Which is correct?  Is it a bug by the definition of RFC 2822 Section 4?  And is
the problem in IMP itself or in PHP?

I'm hesitant to submit a new bug report when the first one got slapped down.

Cheers,
 Matt Zaleski