modify time of synced messages is 1 hour in the future

[Kyle Silfer]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:

>> The source IMAP server is Dovecot, read-only, and the destination is 
>> Cyrus. The timezones are the same on source and destination.
>
> What is in charge of writing the files on the destination? IOW is the
> destination type (a local maildir written by OfflineIMAP or a remote IMAP
> Cyrus server)?

The destination is the Cyrus IMAP server, which is not remote. It's the 
same server that I'm running offlineimap on.

>> After running offlineimap, a message with this Date header:
>>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:03:59 -0600
>>
>> ... arrives on the destination server with a modify time of 12:03:59. Here's the stat output on the file itself on the destination file system:
>>
>> Access: 2014-09-30 12:03:59.000000000 -0600
>> Modify: 2014-09-30 12:03:59.000000000 -0600
>> Change: 2014-09-30 11:04:40.782825328 -0600
>>
>> The ctime shows when the file was actually written to the filesystem and is correct, but the atime and mtime are both in the future.
>>
>> Originally I was running the Ubuntu 14.04 package (6.5.4) but I upgraded to 6.5.6 because I saw in the notes for 6.5.5 some date-related changes, e.g.:
>>
>> Allow to set message access and modification timestamps based on the "Date" header of the message itself. (Cyril Russo)
>>
>> Honor the timezone of emails (Tobias Thierer)
>>
>> ... however, I am experiencing the same problem. All emails synced from the source get 1 hour added to their modification time. Is there an undocumented .offlineimaprc setting to activate these date/time fixes? Is this the same bug from 2009? Is there a workaround? Please advise. Thank you.
>
> Are the date and time correct on both source and destination systems?

Yes, within a couple of minutes of each other.

And time zone is also correct.

./k