MIME::Lite (format time)

softworkz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow Monks, I have this email program that works fine with sending the attachments, but I can't seem to figure out how to modify the time? The time is exactly 5 hours ahead of actual time it was sent. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;

&Send_EMail;
sub Send_EMail{
    my $Dir = "D:\\SomeDir";
    # Open the folder
    unless(opendir(DIR, $Dir)) {
        #  print "Cannot open folder $folder!\n";
        exit;
    }

    # Read the folder, ignoring special entries "." and ".."
    my @Files = grep (!/^\.\.?$/, readdir(DIR));
    closedir(DIR);

    my $msg = new MIME::Lite
        From    =>'them@somewhere',
         To      =>'you@somewhere',
        Subject =>'Report',
        Type    =>'multipart/mixed';
        attach $msg
        Type     =>'TEXT',
        Data     =>"DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE\n";

    my $File = $_;

    foreach $File(@Files) {
        attach $msg
        Type     =>'image/gif',
        Path     =>"$Dir\\$File",
        Filename =>"$File";
        
    }
    MIME::Lite->send( 'smtp', 'yourpostoffice.mail.somewhere.com', Tim
+eout => 20 );
    $msg->send || die "Cannot send message: $!";
}
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Re: MIME::Lite (format time) by moot (Chaplain) on Mar 10, 2005 at 16:24 UTC
Perhaps you should look at the timezone on the SMTP server.	[reply]
Re^2: MIME::Lite (format time) by softworkz (Monk) on Mar 10, 2005 at 23:01 UTC
I figured it out. I made an adjustment in the module, see the below code. ### Datestamp if desired: # ------------------------------------------------ my $Sec; my $Min; my $Hour; my $MDay; my $Mon; my $Year; my $WDay; my $YDay; my $IsDst; ($Sec,$Min,$Hour,$MDay,$Mon,$Year,$WDay,$YDay,$IsDst)=localtime(time); + # ------------------------------------------------ my $ds_wanted = $params{Datestamp}; my $ds_defaulted = ($is_top and !exists($params{Datestamp})); if (($ds_wanted or $ds_defaulted) and !exists($params{Date})) { my ($u_wdy, $u_mon, $u_mdy, $u_time, $u_y4) = split /\s+/, gmtime().""; ### should be non-locale-dependent $u_time = "$Hour:$Min:$Sec"; # now fix the time my $date = "$u_wdy, $u_mdy $u_mon $u_y4 $u_time UT"; $self->add("date", $date); } [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: MIME::Lite (format time) by moot (Chaplain) on Mar 10, 2005 at 23:05 UTC
Well, ok, but it strikes me that's a lot of work when all you have to do is adjust the timezone on the SMTP server. You'll probably find it's set to GMT/ UTC, where your client machine is set to GMT+5/ EST or something similar.	[reply]