I think it's simply that Russel has his computer date wrong (one day early), and while Outlook uses the local arrival time, Thunderbird uses the remote sender's time.
Of course it's pretty absurd that in 2006 we still don't have computers on networks naturally synchronized time-wise by default. At a minimum to within a second or two. Jochen Fromm wrote: > That's strange, in my Mozilla Thunderbird (IMAP) e-Mail client > I can see the response from Russel before the original mail from > Nick about "Friam Digest, Vol 37, Issue 47". Microsoft's Outlook > displays it in the correct order: > > Dates in Outlook > Russel's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 9:09 > Nick's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 6:46 > > Dates in Thunderbird > Nick's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 6:45 > Russel's Mail Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 21:02 > > Perhaps it has something to do with the time shift between > USA and Australia. However, the message ordering in Thunderbird > shows clearly a violation of causality: the effect is visible > before the cause. Causality violations are one reason that makes > distributed and complex systems so hard to understand, see > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAS-Group/message/1149 > > -J. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
