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NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

IP logged posted posted 05-04-2008 13:47 Edit Quote

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

Tyberius Prime
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Germany
Insane since: Sep 2001

IP logged posted posted 05-04-2008 14:05 Edit Quote

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

NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

IP logged posted posted 05-04-2008 15:25 Edit Quote

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

Tyberius Prime
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Germany
Insane since: Sep 2001

IP logged posted posted 05-05-2008 10:38 Edit Quote

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

Skaarjj
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: :morF
Insane since: May 2000

IP logged posted posted 05-05-2008 12:50 Edit Quote

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:

code:
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

NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

IP logged posted posted 05-05-2008 14:14 Edit Quote

^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



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