I have the same thing when looking at the "last logged in" time there is
always 1 hour exactly difference but all clocks involved are correct, on
local machines they even use the mail server fo net time so they are exactly
the same
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] email time


>
> >But in the same respect I have had complaints about and seen with mine
own
> >eyes a Mail sent and it arrive 5 seconds later only time stamped two
hours
> >ahead. I looked at time on both the server and the client as well as the
> >regional settings I even went as far as the hardware clock and still it
does
> >it.
>
> If it is off by an exact number of hours (IE 2 hours off, not 2 hours and
> 20 minutes), then it is probably a time zone issue.  If you live in the
EST
> time zone but have your computer set to PST, the time on your screen will
> look correct, but the time in your E-mails will be 3 hours off.
>
> You can see the time on the various mail servers that handled the E-mail
by
> looking that their "Received: " headers, which will be timestamped with
the
> time the E-mail hit the mail server.
>
> We once worked on a program that was designed to tell you where delays in
> E-mail delivery occurred, based on the Date: and Received: headers.  But,
> we found that so many mail servers had broken clocks (10+ minutes
fast/slow
> or wrong time zone) that it wasn't useful.
>
>                                                             -Scott
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