Topic: Time stamps on email? (Page 1 of 1)

How do they work?

My computer clock is set within a minute or two of reality but a friend sent me this...

"Your computer's clock is out -- the message below says you sent it at 7:35 am -- I received it at 6:38 am -- it is now 7:20 am on my computer."

Parallel uni's perhaps? =)

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?It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.? Voltaire

More likely a time zone issue, I'd guess.

Ooops... forgot to mention he lives less than a mile away, =)

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?It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.? Voltaire

Which doesn't mean that either of your machines could believe to live in the wrong time zone

The 'time stamps' on messages aren't determined by your computer, but by the first (and possibly last) mail server the message passes through to get to its destination. We have trouble with BigPond mail servers here, where they claim to have sent a message ten hours before its recieved. You see things like this in the headers:

Received from mymachine.lan
by mx1.bigpond.com (this.is.an.address) 00:03;45 +0000
Received from mx1.bigpond.com
by mx.mycompany.com (this.is.an.address) 10:03:47 +1000

For some reason BigPond (a teleco in Australia) doesn't feel the need to set their servers' clocks to anything other than UTC. Bastards.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

^Thank you. I've often looked at the header info to follow the bounce but never really noticed the time stamp before.

TP Here on planet Melmac we have no time zones. =)

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?It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.? Voltaire