You got mail!

Does anyone know what time It really Is?
When I recieve mail via Windows Live Mail ,The times are off?
In hotmail when you send and recieve mail the time is posted to the exact!
When I go To look at mail in Windows live the times of sending and recieveing
are way off!
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? To me its very important as to when mail
Is being sent and recieved, If I send mail at 2:45 Pm, I dont want It saying
I sent It at 6:00AM????

Hi, Red.

You are posting via the browser (aka the web-based interface, Microsoft
Communities, or discussion groups). When you use a browser, rather than a
newsreader client, your Send time is always set to Redmond time.

When using WLM, you can see the headers for any post here by highlighting
the post and pressing <Ctrl>+F3. The headers on your post look like this
(in part):

<paste>
Subject: You got mail!
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:26:01 -0700
Lines: 8
Message-ID: <E44ACBB1-5D79-4053-9EBE-9C27BCCEAD20@xxxxxx>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
</paste>

Note that the time is GMT -0700; that's Pacific Standard Time (not
PDT, -0800). That X-Newsreader line says (kind of in code) that you are
using the web interface. CDO means Collaborative Data Objects (and I have
no idea what that means), and MS has been using this ever since Win2K.

Note, too, that your address is shown as "@discussions.microsoft.com".
That's another clue that you are using the web interface.

Check the headers on messages posted by myself or anyone else other than
that @discussions... domain. You'll see that they include a timeline that
reflects the actual location of the sender. Or use WLM to send your posts
and the time should show up correctly.

By the way, when DID you actually post that last message? At 10:26:01 this
morning? From where (in the world)?

If you'd like to see how WLM displays these same messages as a newsreader,
just click here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop

You'll come right back here, reading these same messages, but in the
newsreader format, rather than the web format. Try it; I think you'll like
it! ;<)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"Thanks Red" <Thanks Red@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E44ACBB1-5D79-4053-9EBE-9C27BCCEAD20@xxxxxx

Time discrepancies of the type you mentioned are often caused
by your computer's time zone setting being wrong.
The mail program gets the sent and received time stamps from
the headers in the message, then it converts those to the local
time zone.
--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


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