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10-10-2002, 09:18 AM
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I can't understand what is going on. In my email inbox, in the preview pane I get emails that are wierdly timestamped. It is now 9:17 am. A message received shows 10/10/02 2:03PM . How can this happen? Is it a fault on the other end? Is it my ISP? Or is there a bug?
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10-10-2002, 09:20 AM
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It does depend on where they are coming from!
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10-10-2002, 10:49 AM
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also, if your isp has a weird time set on their servers, all mail passing through will get stamped with that. same as their isp.
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10-10-2002, 11:00 AM
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It is trivial to change the timestamp on an e-mail message, so don't believe it for anything. There are services that provide trusted timestamps, if they are crucial: for businesses, for example.
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10-10-2002, 10:22 PM
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Sounds like it was stamped with GMT when it was sent instead of local time (or it came from the UK) - I use Pegasus Mail and I can set any SMTP time zone I want in it. Check the offset in the mail headers next time you get a weird one - where you are in TX you are -0500 right now, -0600 when you go back to CST.
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10-11-2002, 02:18 AM
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Hell this was a email from my wife's workplace across town! She works as a Bank Officer for a local Bank.
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10-11-2002, 10:58 AM
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The bank probably has their e-mailer set to GMT (0000) if that's the case.
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