On 6 Feb 2004 at 18:27, Raibel E. Botta Rigores wrote: > Here, a little of an email header part: > Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 00:11:32 +0100 > > What does the line 00:11:32 +0100 mean? How can I convert the time of the > sender to the time of the receiver? How can this be understood? (I mean the > time in headers of email, of course).
It means the email was sent at 11 minutes and 32 seconds past midnight -- in a timezone that is one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Each machine that handles an email message should add its own date header. Here, for example, are some of the (edited) headers from your own email ... Delivery-date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:05:29 +0000 Received: ... Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:05:29 +0000 Received: ... 7 Feb 2004 17:58:47 -0000 Received: ... 7 Feb 2004 17:58:47 -0000 Received: ... 7 Feb 2004 17:58:47 -0000 Received: ... Sat, 7 Feb 2004 12:57:54 -0500 Received: ... Sat, 7 Feb 2004 12:57:54 -0500 Received: ... Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:29:59 -0500 (EST) Received: ... Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:29:54 -0500 (CST) Received: ... Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:29:46 -0500 (CST) Received: ... Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:32:56 GMT Received: ... Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:27:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:27:50 -0400 The significant dates are the send date and the delivery date. The other dates rarely have any practical importance -- it's just tracking information. -- szs `at` szs `dot` net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACCMAIL Info (automatically generated) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To UNSUBscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get the ACCMAIL FAQ: Send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
