I have found a few posts on this topic...

Folks seems to say that Mail::SendMail works, but it is off by a hour on my 2 machines (win32). 
The relevant snipit: 
my $offset  = sprintf "%.1f", (timegm(localtime) - time) / 3600; 
my $minutes = sprintf "%02d", ( $offset - int($offset) ) * 60; 
$TZ  = sprintf("%+03d", int($offset)) . $minutes;

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This takes the diff between GMT and my localtime. I can check if 'isdst' is set (from localtime) and then subtract an hour. This works in North America...but probably won't elseware... ;-)

Is this just a windows issue or does it work diff in Unix?

What do other people do to create dates in RFC822 format?

THANKS!!!

In reply to net::smtp and date field by smackdab

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