Posted by Bill Fraser on Oct 8, 2009
I use Mozilla Thunderbird at work for reading my email and, since Mozilla Messaging is approaching the release of Thunderbird 3, I decided to give the latest beta a try. I’m an Ubuntu user (8.04 “Hardy Heron” on my workstation) so I sought out a PPA for development versions of Thunderbird, and came across ubuntu-mozilla-daily. I added the repository to my apt config and you can too, here’s how:
Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list using your favourite editor. Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Don Seiler on Apr 17, 2009
I’m back again with another in what I hope will be a long line of “Quick Tips for Newbies” series.
At The Pythian Group, we have employees all over the globe, from our headquarters in Ottawa to regional offices in Boston, Prague, India and Sydney, and a few scattered remote workers in Seattle, Paris, Kiev, Brazil, South Africa and Wisconsin, among other places. In other words, we are spread across multiple timezones, and since it wasn’t too long ago that everyone was in Ottawa, this is something that still presents little quirks.
One such quirk involved email generated by one of our internal Oracle instances—via a stored procedure that used UTL_SMTP to send the messages—did not have timezone information in the “Date” email header. As a result, they would be stamped with the hour in Eastern timezone (Ottawa time), but the mail clients would think that hour was local. Depending on where you are relative to Ottawa, this could be many hours in the past or future. Of course, this wouldn’t be noticed if you were in Ottawa or even Boston, both in Eastern. For the rest, it was at the very least, an annoyance—but one that is easily fixed.
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