Yahoo mail time stamps - how to read

[Steve]

---  Random832 <random832 at ...> wrote:
>
> Sharon Hayes wrote:
> >  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? ...
> > 
> >  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.

> Random832:
> 
> Wrong; this is what I thought for a long time, because it 
> seems to make intuitive sense, but it's wrong. the 7:50 _is_
> the time where it's being sent from, and the +0300 is an 
> identifier of the timezone. 

bboyminn:

I check in a tech support forum, and the consensus seems to 
agree with Random832. The time stamp is showing two separate
pieces of information. The Local Time of the Sender, and
the Sender's Time Zone.

So... 7:50 +0300 ... is 7:50 local Russian time, which is
in turn in the Time Zone GMT +0300. 

Though apparently no one really uses GMT any more. Now it
is UCT for Universal Coordinated Time.

Steve/bboyminn