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Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2003 03:48:36 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Message time

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Ray Davison wrote:
>
> Steven Levine wrote:
> >
> >>If the problem is Mozilla, why is the date correct
> >>when I send a message to myself and os2user@yahoo,
> >>but not to SCOUG?
> >
> > The dates are incorrect when you send to me too.
> > As to why you think they are correct at os2user,
> > I can only guess.
>
> Why I THINK? Because I sent it to os2user at 8:14 pm
> (2014) and the message in my inbox says 08:14 pm.

Ray,

If you read the message on the same machine you sent the
message from, the display is "adjusted" by your email
program to represent your _local_ time and your sent time
and received times will match.

Thus, if your local time is GMT, and the message was sent
from a machine set to GMT, then the sent time and the
displayed time will match.

I am sending this message at 3:50 a.m. from a machine set
to PDT (-0700). See what time your email program displays
for it. It *should* say 3:50 a.m. (give or take a minute
-- I don't know if the SCOUG list server is sync'd to any
NTP servers and there will be a few seconds of lag as this
message is sent to everyone on the list).

If the message time stamp displayed on your screen says
10:50 a.m. (+0000) instead of 3:50 a.m. (-0700) then your
machine (or at least your email program) thinks you are in
the GMT time zone.

- Peter

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