Please set you time!!
Chadley Wilson
chadley at pinteq.co.za
Tue Mar 23 18:46:24 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 20:39, Dave Cross wrote:
> 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...
>
> --
> New .sigs
> Running in please parse
Well you learn something new everyday
Thanks All
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