Yahoo mail time stamps - how to read

[Steve]

---  "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> > 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. 
> > 
> 
> Tonks:
> So if I got 2 e-mails one from California marked 11-09-07 at 
> 6:35:55 -0500 and one sometime later marked 11-10-07 on the
> inside of the e-mail but 11-09-07 on the outside (meaning the
> listing in my inbox at Yahoo) and the inside time of 7:50:33
> +0300. What time is it in Michigan when the first one reaches
> me and when the second one reaches me, EST.  
> 
> Thanks!!
> Tonks_op
> who's math is only a little better than Rowlings.
>

bboyminn:

Sorry but you've jumbled your emails together is such a way
that I can determine which is which. None the less, the
time you see in your Yahoo Inbox is the 'post' time, that is,
it is the time that Yahoo made the email available to your
email account.

Also keep in mind that email doesn't travel instantly, and
it travels through many servers along the way.

Here is an example of a full email header from some SPAM I
received -

-Account-Key: account2
X-UIDL: cf1bf13e6ee11a1f2e1d6779661afad8
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Apparently-To: oly...usa at yahoo.com via 206.190.37.26; Fri, 16 Feb
2007 22:37:51 -0800
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 65.54.246.109
Authentication-Results: mta458.mail.mud.yahoo.com  from=hotmail.co.uk;
domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 65.54.246.109  (EHLO bay0-omc1-s37.bay0.hotmail.com)
(65.54.246.109)
  by mta458.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:37:51 -0800
Received: from hotmail.com ([65.55.138.112]) by
bay0-omc1-s37.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668);
	 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:37:12 -0800
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
	 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:37:12 -0800
Message-ID: <BAY133-F329D0FAEE7259CE535923DD6940 at phx.gbl>
Received: from 65.55.138.123 by by133fd.bay133.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP;
	Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:37:07 GMT
X-Originating-IP: [41.243.185.129]
X-Originating-Email: [nluk_2335 at hotmail.co.uk]
X-Sender: nluk_2335 at hotmail.co.uk
From: "nluk lottery" <nluk_2335 at hotmail.co.uk>
To: nluk_2335 at hotmail.co.uk
Bcc: 
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:37:07 +0000
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; format=flowed
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Feb 2007 06:37:12.0059 (UTC)
FILETIME=[0E1DDCB0:01C7525E]

'...actual message begins here...'

This Email was sent from a HotMail account in the UK, relayed
through a 'FreeServer' email account and sent to my Yahoo
email address, then downloaded via POP Email into my computer.

Note it was sent on Feb 16 (Calif -0800 time), but arrived on
Feb 17 (UTC/GMT time). 

Also note that despite being in Minnesota (-0500) and the
email originating in the UK (0000), we still see California
timestamps on the Email (+0800). 

Now I will concede that email dates don't alway make sense
especially when Yahoo is involved. I check my own webpage
Yahoo email and found this email -

In the list of all emails, this coffee advert (Gevalia Kona 
Coffee) is dated -

Sat Nov 24, 2007

but when I open that email, the date in the header is listed
as -

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:53:10 EST

Keep in mind, it is currently Nov 21, 2007. 

Another coffee advert (Seattle Coffee Direct) has a list
date of -

Sat Nov 24, 2007

and an email header date of -

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:55:31 EST

But again, it's only Nov 12, 2007 now.

So, I suggest you not let this drive you crazy, sometimes
there is simply no sense to be made of it.

Steve/bboyminn