Hi,

KMail has some funny timzone issues. It shows my own sent mails with the correct timezone and also puts the correct timezone above quoted text when I reply to emails, but it seems to be interpreting the timestamp of incoming mails incorrrectly and also putting the wrong timestamp on outgoing mails. People keep asking me if my computer is still on Australian time (I was there until two weeks ago and am now in Germany). And my incoming mails are also 8 hours off.
I'm not sure if this is KMail specific, but I'm only experiencing it in KMail. Also, I am using Plasma 5 so I can't use kde4 systemsettings.

I lack the means of reproducing this (perhaps later as I'll be around Asia). Do all incoming mails suffer from this issue?

As far as I can tell, yes, all of them.

No other time-related abnormalities on your system? Just to rule out any possible confounding factor.

there is a bug for timezone issues in KMail:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317817

you may want to add to that bug if you think it is related

It seems to be a different problem. This is what I see on my outgoing messages:

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From *****@*********** Fri Jul 25 05:05:35 2014
From: **** ****** <*****@***********>
To: *** =?ISO-8859-1?********* <****@*****>
Subject: ***
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:05:35 +1000

The time in the "Date" line is actually correct. The other time isn't. What could be going on there?

edit: actually, the time is correct, but the time zone should be +2000 because of DST.
edit2: Ok, this is weird. Note the DST information and the timezone stating EST (Australian eastern standard time) and at the same time Europe/Berlin.

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timedatectl status
      Local time: Fri 2014-07-25 15:50:18 EST
  Universal time: Fri 2014-07-25 05:50:18 UTC
        RTC time: Fri 2014-07-25 05:50:18
       Time zone: Europe/Berlin (EST, +1000)
     NTP enabled: no
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: no
 Last DST change: DST ended at
                  Sun 2014-04-06 02:59:59 EST
                  Sun 2014-04-06 02:00:00 EST
 Next DST change: DST begins (the clock jumps one hour forward) at
                  Sun 2014-10-05 01:59:59 EST
                  Sun 2014-10-05 03:00:00 EST

It seems I had incorrect timezone information. I don't know how that happened, but now it seems all fixed. Not a KMail issue after all, but only in Kmail it showed.