yahoo email question

[NewJeffCT]

I have my yahoo email set up for what I thought was eastern standard time (meaning, it's now 11:07pm as I type this)... but, I often get yahoo emails with really strange time stamps on them - pacific time, just got one stamped greenwich mean time??? I know these are sent from pretty local places within Connecticut, so why the strange times?

[shoelace414]

1. it also depends on

the PC sending the Mail timestamp... and sometimes the mail servers they go through.

when you set your PC's time, you also set the timezone, it's really mostly use for E-mail (timezone)

[Booster]

3. I also have a question. No matter how many times I set the clock

on my PC, at some point in the day it forwards itself 2 hrs ahead. Like right now it's 8:12 and my screen says it's 10:12 - WTF is that? Think my computer was made in Oklahoma?

[shoelace414]

5. it always jumps two hours?

it's probably your time zone is incorrect.. windows XP uses a time server (time.windows.com I think) to reset the time on a regular basis.

[Booster]

6. Thanks. I'll check and see what the time zone is on the thing. I

really am borderline stupid when it comes to these contraptions. On edit: It only gives a time zone for US & Canada (Central Time Zone).

[ms liberty]

2. It may be that...

that is how they have their times set up, I'm not sure? But are you asking also what greenwich mean time is?

[NewJeffCT]

4. no, i know that it's in the UK

so, i think it's like 5-6 hours difference... just want to know why somebody sending it from a few towns over would have that stamp on it.