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just me fromsouthorange
Citizen
Username: Jmfromsorange
Post Number: 195
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 4:35 pm: | 
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does anyone use juno for email? if so, how do you figure out what time an email was sent or received? i'm going nuts trying to figure out why the 'in' mail will come as any of the following examples: actually sent at:
1:45pm from hotmail says 13:45 -500
1:47pm from aol says 13:45 EST
1:52pm through a filter says 10:52 PST
2:23pm through yahoo says 11:32 PST
2:30pm through juno says 19:28 GMT
3:04pm through juno says 15:05 -5 |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2420
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 5:32 pm: |
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-5 and -500 mean 5 hours before Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) which is the same as eastern time zone (EST) when daylight time is not in effect.
PST is pacific standard time, which is 8 hours before GMT.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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just me fromsouthorange
Citizen
Username: Jmfromsorange
Post Number: 196
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 8:02 pm: |
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tom-
thanks! so let me understand this.
gmt is the same as est (based on the 2400 'clock')
and i should ignore the -5 or -500?
if it says
19:28 GMT that means it's 14:28 otherwise known as 2:30pm EST.
if it says 10:00 GMT that means it's 5:00am EST, right?
why would email sent from different sources show up with different time stamps? and some as if it's on the 2400 clock?
with pst wouldn't it be three hours befoe est?
this is very confusing! |
Dave
Citizen
Username: Dave
Post Number: 6588
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 8:56 pm: |
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They're all different because the time is stamped by the sending server's e-mail software and the software uses army time. When a message is sent, it has no idea what time zones it will have to jump to reach you. |
sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 1018
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 10:18 pm: |
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GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, the timezone for Greenwich (and London) England. It is 5 hours later there than here (ignoring Daylight Saving time), hence the -5 or -500 for EST. PST is an additional 3 hours earlier, as you note, or GMT-8. "Official" time stamps are usually measured from GMT. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2421
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 11:03 pm: |
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No, JMFSO. 12:00 GMT is the same time as 7:00 EST (or 7:00 -500) which is the same as 4:00 PST.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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