On 22/7/04 7:44 am, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 7/21/04 11:27 PM, "Hanagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Paul.  
>> That seemed to do something.  I ran the edited script and the time did
>> change, but it changed to a time 6 hours in the future!  :-)
>> 
>> Are you guys in Europe?  I'm wondering if maybe it's now changing to the
>> "sent" time even though it is set to "received".  Otherwise I don't know
>> what the 6 hour difference is.
> 
> Not I, but Barry is. It's very true that the Received headers (and the Sent
> header for that matter) in message sources give local time, stating the time
> zone, but AppleScript ignores the text representing the time zone.
> 
> Still, the first received header is the one referring to your own ISP's
> server, which should be in your own time zone. I'm not sure why you'd be
> getting a 6-hour difference.

Pretty much what I said.

Thinking about it, though. I have occasionally seen servers that use GMT as
a base time, and don't report local time at all. Not common, but I think
some Unix systems are set up like this.

-- 
Barry Wainwright
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