re: Changing the time on incoming emails
Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 2:51 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matthew D. Healy
(1255 messages posted)
It should not matter where the server is, many ISPs
serve entire continents from one location. If you view
the headers in any email message, you'll see times like
these:
Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:43:56 -0400 (EDT)
Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:43:55 -0400
Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:43:55 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
The formats vary, but if it is compliant with the relevant
RFCs then the timestamp will always give the offset
from GMT because all email software, not only Unix
but also Microsoft Exchange, internally keeps time in
GMT.
For more about email header formats, look here:
http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html
It doesn't matter POP or IMAP or whatever, those are
protocols for transferring the messages, the header
format is the same.
Of course, Microsoft being Microsoft, Outlook has some
funnies in this area. But it *should* do the right thing in
most cases if the time zone settings in the Date/Time
Control panel are correctly set.
On Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 12:06 pm, Ricer46 wrote:
>Admittedly I don't have much knowledge in this area, but I have to use OE to get
>mail from an IMAP server located in the Mountain Time Zone. I'm in Central. All
mail
>is time stamped with Mountain Time. I don't see a way that I could change that,
although
>in this case it would not be a desirable change to make. I'd be curious to know
how
>just for the sake of the knowledge.
>But I reallize that things may be completely different for a POP server.
>
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