Email dates and times

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Email dates and times

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I have always wondered about the received date and time on emails in outlook.

I have just received and email which says it was recieved at 23:57, which is like 7 hours in the future.

What does that time mean?

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It means you've been drinking too much ;)...

mMm.......I wonder though, maybe it's the mail server? Or just plain MS-Ness again.

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i thought it might be the mail server. But is it the time the mail server recieves it or the time the mail server sends it!?

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Post by Nay »

Probably when you puke.........er........when you receive it since like I think mail needs to bounce off a few servers before reaching to yours.

Why don't you do a phpinfo()? If your mail and webserver are the same. You can then see the server's time zone.

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Post by redmonkey »

The time you see in your email client is the time on the computer that sent the mail when they sent it.

Try adjusting your time and date on your computer and sending a mail to yourself.

There are also additional headers put in there which include the time their smtp server delivered it and the time your mail server received it. You'll need to view the source of the mail to see them.
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Post by JayBird »

redmonkey wrote:Try adjusting your time and date on your computer and sending a mail to yourself.
I did that, but the email that came through still had the correct time on it

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