On Thursday 01 January 2004 03:25, E. Hines wrote: > > Yes, but, if the server can't read the timestamp correctly, it > defaults to January 1, 1970. This happened to my mail sent to a > friend's misconfigured UNIX box. The time stamp on all my mails > was midnight, January 1, 1970 (unix rollover time), MINUS the time > zone from GMT. Hence, all my mails were stamped with an 3:59PM, > Wednesday, December 31, 1969. GMT minus my time zone - Pacific > time is 8 hours BEHIND GMT (or his, we are in the same time zone). > I'm the only one sending e-mail to him from a unix-like system, and > mine was the only one timestamped that way. I don't know what he > did, but he finally got it fixed on his end. So, is the time and > date GMT minus the time zone you live in? > > I hope you find this little bit of trivia interesting and maybe > even helpful. > Good explanation of something that has intrigued me for a while
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