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Re: 'Message recevied' time

Subject: Re: 'Message recevied' time
From: MarkB
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:33:02 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.internet.mail
Ok, I can see that on a message I have written to someone in the reply they 
have sent back (i.e. it would have been in the header of THIER email when the 
they received it from me).  The header I see on their reply back to ME doesnt 
have the offset info - only a simple time/date stamp.  I am guessing that the 
time shown their is the time it "arrived" according to my local regional time 
setting as defined in my msn profile - does that sound correct?

"N. Miller" wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:33:02 -0800, MarkB wrote:
> 
> > If I see a message that has come into my Hotmail Inbox, what is the 'time 
> > received' stamp on the email - is that time relative to me and my location 
> > settings in my Hotmail account settings somehow?  Or is 'time received' 
> > relative to some global thing?
> 
> It is related to "Coordinated Universal Time", aka UTC. If you look at the
> full headers, you will see an offset:
> 
> | Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:12:52 -0800
> 
> UTC less 8 is my local geographic time, Pacific Standard Time. My local
> geographic time plus 8 is UTC. The message I pulled this header line from is
> 9:12:52 PM (21:12:52) PST. It was not really "29:12:52" on Mon. Nov. 20 in
> Greenwich England, when that message was sent. It was "05:12:52" on Tue.
> Nov. 21 over there.
> 
> -- 
> Norman
> ~Oh Lord, why have you come
> ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
> 

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