Yahoo mail time stamps - how to read

[Mike]

> --Random832
> 
> The 7:50 _is_ the time where it's being sent from, and the +0300 
> is an identifier of the timezone. It's 7:50 where it's being 
> sent from, and 4:50 GMT. The +/-NNNN isn't a number to be added 
> to the time shown in the timestamp, it's an identifier of the 
> timezone that the timestamp is in.

Mike:
Yeah, that's what I said. BTW, since HPfGU's home location is the 
UK, anything you get from here including the digests, Special 
Notices, etc. and if anyone hits the "Reply" button and changes 
the "To" to the individual poster, the time stamp will be 0000, 
reflecting GMT.



> Random832:
> The timestamps you're seeing, incidentally, are in all likelihood
> not coming from Yahoo, because there's no reason they wouldn't 
> all be in pacific time in that case.

Mike:
Right, most likely the time stamps are added by the sender's ISP. 
That's why they differ ever so slightly. 

The date stamp in ones email in-box is added by ones own ISP and 
reflect the date received according to local time. That's why the 
email Tonk's received had the date as Nov 9, when the date sent time 
stamp (after she opened the email) was Nov 10. It was still Nov 9 for 
her when she received it.