Edith's clock [ot]

[Guest guest]

oh dear... Mikky...

 

mine says:

 

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> slg edith [slgedith]

> Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:08 PM

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> RE: nazis (what is this crap?)

 

that's the time that YOUR system thinks it received her email ... not the

time that her system sent it... !!!!

 

>

> Mavreela [nec.lists]

> Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:35 PM

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> Edith's clock

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>

> At 2:07 Edith said:

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> >

> > " slg edith " <slgedith

> >Wed, 01 May 2002 13:07:48 +0000

> >RE: nazis (what is this crap?)

>

> You do know we've put the clocks forward for summer. I know

> you usually

> live in the ideas of the past but why not come and join us in

> the future?

>

> Michael

[Guest guest]

>oh dear... Mikky...

 

Tech hat time, critical thinking and computers, and all in one day.

 

mavreela said (in raw SMTP format time):

> >Wed, 01 May 2002 13:07:48 +0000

 

uncle Oliver said (in nicely formatted system time):

> > Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:35 PM

 

SMTP headers (which I quoted, and which Eudora uses,) are not based on the

system where you read a message, but are set on the computers the email

travels through. And the Date header is set by the sender. Also SMTP

times should be given relative to GMT, hence it should have read +0100

after the time to indicate 1 hour ahead of GMT.

 

Technically of course it was the right GMT (+0000 ) time, but without

timezone conversion on my mail client it comes up wrong.

 

Admittedly maybe Edith sent the message from the site (I can't be

bothered to check) so maybe they are the ones who are causing the problem,

but whichever computer originated the email isn't sending the time in nice

proper BST format.

 

Way too much words for way too trivial an issue.

 

Michael