Re: UNRELATED: Time on messages

vardi wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On a completely unrelated point, can someone explain to me how the time
> item works on e-mail messages? If I see that someone posted a message at
> 04:40, does that mean their time, my time, UCT or some other standard?
> And is it the time they posted it, or the time I received it (or, in the
> case of a list, the time it was past on?)
The header of the message has a field for time and it includes the local
time where the email where sent and the time zone.  This allows that the
email client knows when it was sent in the local time.

Your message says: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:57:01 +0200

It means you sent the message at 9:57 today morning and that you live in the
timezone UCT+02:00 (Eastern Europe if I'm not mistaken).  In my email client
it says that your message were sent at 2:57 today (I live in timezone
UCT-05:00).

The dates and times are taken from the local machine, then if the clock in
your machine is fast or slow or you, or you have another date for been
allowed to use some unregistred demo, it will seem that your message was
sent at a different time or date.

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Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzon
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