What does the time stamped on an e-mail or post indicate?
Timestamps on e-mails and newsgroup posts show you local time where it was sent from, when it was sent. When you read a message on WebTV, the time is usually either shown with an offset from your local timezone (EST-2, for instance), or as Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time, GMT). Time stamps are only as accurate as the mailserver sending out the message, though, sometimes their clocks are off. And some online services use mail servers in other time zones, even other countriessome AOL mail is routed to a mailserver in England, for instance, making the time 5 to 8 hours off the “real” time sent when the sender is really in the U.S.
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