[HPFGU-OTChatter] Yahoo mail time stamps - how to read

[Sharon Hayes]

 Tonks:
  If when I look at the inbox it says 11-9-07 and when I open the e-mail
it says 11-10-07. Why is that? The message came from somone in Europe.
And what does 7:50:33 +0300, mean in real English for someone in the
EST time zone? Another message sent from the U.S. says 6:35:55 -0500.
What does THAT mean in real English for someone in the Eastern Time
Zone? The person at Yahoo could not give me a straight answer. They
kept saying that they were not in my time zone, Yahoo is in the PST
time zone and so this idiot could not help me.

 Sharon:
It's a time zone thing.  The time 7:50 +0300 means it's 7.50am Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (ie London time) plus three hours. So it's really 10.50am wherever the email is being sent from.
A three hour difference could mean it goes over to the next day. For example, where I live we are GMT +10 hours. So if it's 7am here, it's 9pm in London the night before. So if I send a message to someone in London today, it shows up in their inbox as yesterday.

Hope that makes sense?


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