Please set you time!!

[Dave Cross]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:15:26PM +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 19:57, WipeOut wrote:
> > >
> > Your mail client should show the time in your local zone so it should 
> > not matter what timezone the message was sent or recieved in..
> > 
> But I often get mails from people where the time says it was sent
> yesterday, or tomorrow. The point I am making is that I am in South
> Africa @ 8pm in SA its already about 1AM in Austrailia so your date/time
> in Austrailia will  ahead of mine in SA and so the same applies to
> people is the US they are behind me.
> I cant see how we can all have the same date and time when we are
> situated around the world in different time zones.
> Look I am not saying I am right here, I just think that this is the most
> logical explanation.  

The time on your email was given as 08:15:26PM +0200. That's your
local time and the difference from GMT. As I'm sitting in GMT at 18:35,
I can tell that you sent your email about 20 minutes ago.

Any reasonable email client will be able to use this information to sort
emails in strict chronological order, ignoring any local differences.

Assuming, of course, that you have your computer clock and timezone set
correctly.

Dave...

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