[pchelpers] Re: help please

> to know. The clock on my pc has the right time yet the time that shows on
the mail when it arrives at the address I sent it to says it was sent hours
befoe I sent it. How come?
>
> Pen

Most email servers use GMT for the time.  Some will correct for local time,
some do not.  Some add a correction after the time so you know what is going
on, eg, your original message was received by my isp with this date line:

Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:35:25 -0500 (EST)

This means it was sent just after midnight on the 21st, then it says -0500
which means 5 hours behind GMT.  Then it says (EST).  All this translates to
you sending the message at 00:35 your local time, which is 5 hours behind
GMT, which also is Eastern Standard Time so you are somewhere on the right
hand side of USA.  To further cloud the issue, I recieved the message at
6:36pm on Monday 21 October.  Since I am in New Zealand and we are on
daylight saving, we are 13 hours ahead of GMT so when you sent the message
at 12:35 am, I recieved it at 6:36 pm, one minute later.

Sometimes you don't get as much information in the date line so you have to
remember that the date and time is usually GMT.

Cheers
Nigel

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