Re: Figuring when an e-mail was sent and what Time zone it was sent from
- From: "Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:24:30 -0700
Each mail messages has multiple time stamps. You can see these in File,
Properties, Details.
When you look at the list of messages in Microsoft IE3 Internet Mail or
IE4+ Outlook Express, the Received time is when the message was received
by your ISP's mail server. The server supplies the time. This is the
first (top most) of possibly several "Received:" lines in the message
header. Each mail server that a message passes through adds its own
Received line. These are in reverse order, so that the bottom most one
listed is the first server that received the message from the sender.
When you open or print a message, the time displayed is from the
sender's PC when he wrote the message, not necessarily when he
transmitted it (depends on the mail client). The time comes from his
PC. This is the "Date:" line in the message header.
The time stamps include a time zone code as either an offset from GMT
(e.g. -0800) or a character code (e.g. PST). The mail program attempts
to adjust displayed times to your local time. If it doesn't recognize a
time zone in a time stamp, it treats it as GMT. The mail program
recognizes the US time zone codes and GMT. Most others it doesn't.
Make sure you have the correct time zone setting on your PC. For
Windows look in Control Panel, Date/Time.
The Server Received time stamps are generally more reliable than the PC
Date time stamp. It's quite common for the PC to have the wrong time
zone set on their PC.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uaLA3E4vFHA.1252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> With an e-mail I got this morning, in my header pane, under the
> Received
> column, it said 10:06 a.m. That's apparently my time (Eastern
> daylight
> time), since I first noticed the e-mail in my Inbox about 10:10 a.m.
>
> The e-mail was sent from someone living in Mountain Zone. So he would
> have sent it at 8:06 a.m. his time, right? But his e-mail, when I
> forward it, says this:
>
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:06.a.m.
>
> This makes no sense.
>
> Further, the properties page for the e-mail says this:
>
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:06:00 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Can anyone decipher all this for me? Thanks.
>
> Larry
>
>
.
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