time/date stamps on the mailing list?
I keep getting alot of mails on this list with the date/time well into the future, ahead of the time which I receive them (e.g. many hours or even a couple of days ahead) Is this a mailing-list setting, my mail client setting (I use evolution 1.2.0), or do people just consistently have the wrong time on their pc's when mailing? I am curious because I would like to find a way to fix this, so that my sorting options work more effectively. Thanks, -Jeric -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 6:38pm up 6 days, 19:25, 10 users, load average: 0.59, 0.35, 0.13
On Sunday 05 January 2003 00:51, Jeric wrote:
I keep getting alot of mails on this list with the date/time well into the future, ahead of the time which I receive them (e.g. many hours or even a couple of days ahead) Is this a mailing-list setting, my mail client setting (I use evolution 1.2.0), or do people just consistently have the wrong time on their pc's when mailing? I am curious because I would like to find a way to fix this, so that my sorting options work more effectively.
Thanks, -Jeric
I believe that the time stamp depends upon the senders' time zone. perhaps we should all set our comps to GMT Paul M.
* Paul Mooney
On Sunday 05 January 2003 00:51, Jeric wrote:
I keep getting alot of mails on this list with the date/time well into the future, ahead of the time which I receive them (e.g. many hours or even a couple of days ahead) Is this a mailing-list setting, my mail client setting (I use evolution 1.2.0), or do people just consistently have the wrong time on their pc's when mailing? I am curious because I would like to find a way to fix this, so that my sorting options work more effectively.
I believe that the time stamp depends upon the senders' time zone. perhaps we should all set our comps to GMT
Most (afaik) unix/linux default to this. Local time setting is primarily to allow people to dual boot to that*dos*shell*system (who_ will_damn_well_do_it_however_they_see_fit) which does not understand the original timing scheem. Of course dos and cp/m also used local time for hardware & system time. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org icq#173753138
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