Off topic - Outlook Express

[Eugenia Carter]

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