That was just a test to check wether mailman is working fine. What we found out that the mail by Dinesh Joshi, in reply to the mail written by me with subject "Running script as root " was dated 16th July 18:34:39 hrs, on the daily digest while on the archives it appeared on the 17th July 00:04:39 hrs. I checked the system date also which is fine. Now the question is how come the same mail have two dates. Is it because of the timezone set by the user or there is some bug in mailman?
It could be timezone setting in member's system. See below:
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The time stamp on the digest makes sense if accounted for difference in UTC and IST. It should still show the same time in the archive of the original posting.
The real problem is due to the fact that Mailman is making adjustments to the mails time to bring it to IST only in the archives, and not in the digests. Dinesh's mail headers indicate that his system time might be set to GMT. In the archives the adjustment to IST caused his mail to be listed on 17Jul, but the same was not done in the archives. Hence the confusion.
Sorry for sending the strange mail to the list. But you see I did not have access to a 'personal' list to recreate the bug, and I had the impression that the error might be on this list only.
Cheers, Debarshi