Off topic - Outlook Express

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

    But I don't understand why it would be set up for the Eastern Seaboard,
when Bill Gates lives in the P.S.T. zone. (Three hours later, didn't he plan
ahead? Did he think that most of the people buying his product would come
from the East Cost, and wanted to make it easy for them? Why do the rest of
us have to know the trick, or be out of luck like second class citizens!) NO
WONDER SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM DEAD!!!!

    P.S.    Just kidding!


Kevin E. Ramsey
ramsey@extremezone.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugenia Carter" <ginacarter@carolina.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic - Outlook Express


> All,
>
> Andy, there is a fix for this particular problem with Outlook Express.
Both
> Joe and Sid emailed me how to do it.
>
> Jeannie and Don, my computer clock was correct and that was the first
thing
> I checked.
>
> The problem was that my regional zone setting was incorrect; once I
changed
> it to Eastern Time, the "received" time is now the actual time I receive
it
> on my computer.
>
> Thanks all for the responses and thanks again, Joe and Sid, for the
correct
> one. :-)
>
> Gina
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew M. Rudoff" <andy@rudoff.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Off topic - Outlook Express
>
>
> > >My "Received" time stamp dates the time I receive mail three hours
> earlier
> > >than I actually do. For example, if I receive a post at 8:55 am my
> > >"Received" time shows 5:55 am.
> > >
> > >I can't find an article on how to fix this. Do any of you Outlook
Express
> > >users know?
> >
> > There's probably nothing to fix, on your machine anyway.  The Received
> > headers are filled in by the machines that forward the message to you.
> > So if a post goes through four machines before it hits your machine,
> > it will have four Received headers, each with what that machine thought
> > the local time was.  Unless your machine is a mail server, it will not
> > add the Received line itself, so you're only looking at timestamps
> > from other machines.  The ptg.org server (whose real name is currently
> > "bridget.rudoff.com") is in the Mountain time zone, so the times on that
> > Received line will be MST.
> >
> > Timestamps on e-mail are like From addresses -- they are just strings
> > that can contain anything.  They're only right when the sender sets
> > them correctly.
> >
> > -andy
>