smtp send message.vi has a wrong send time

[tkchen]

I am using labview 7.0 with internet toolkit. When I tried to use "SMTP send message.vi" to send alert message, I got the wrong DATE field. The time is off by a hour.

[CoastalMaineBird]

I would suggest looking at your computer's DST settings - perhaps you have set the clock ahead but not turned on DST. If so, the conversion to GMT and back will not be correct.

[tkchen]

The DST settings on my computer is correct. In fact I tried this on many different computers, and they all come to the same result.
Just an another piece of information, when I run "SMTP Email Send Message (Small).vi on the same machine, I got the correct time stamp, but not the "SMTP Email Send Message.vi" and others.

Thank you!

[Jeremy Braden]

There is a bug in the way the LabVIEW treats daylight savings time in LabVIEW 7.0. Date/Time To Seconds primitive currently ignores it and that is the function used in the email VI.

[Jolty]

Hello.  Found this post after having the same problem as the original poster.  On 7.1.1 it is still a problem.  Please see attached gif of a simple workaround.  This patch removes the date from the e-mail info sent and thus leaves the date determination up to the receiver.

[Jolty]

Looks like my attachments weren't attached...trying again...

The first gif is the original vi (SMTP Email Send Message Header.vi)

The second gif is this vi with the date info removed.