Yahoo mail time stamps - how to read

[Mike]

> Tonks:
> So if I got one from California marked 11-09-07 at 
> 6:35:55 -0500 

Mike:
If you got one marked >> 6:35:55 -0500 << then it wasn't from 
California, dear. It was from your time zone. That >> -0500 <<
tells you it's from the Eastern US time zone.


> Tonks:
> 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)

Mike:
That means you received the email on 11-09 (your time/date),
but the email was sent on 11-10 (the sender's time/date).


> Tonks:
> and the inside time of 7:50:33 +0300.

Mike:
That's the sender's time of transmission. The >> +0300 << signifies
the sender's time zone, 3 hours ahead of Hogwarts (GMT) time. That
puts them in the Eastern European Time zone.


> Tonks:
> What time is it in Michigan when the first one reaches 
> me and when the second one reaches me, EST. 

Mike:
Well, since the first one was sent in your (and my) time zone,
taint no computations needed. The second one, from Europe, got to 
you at 11:50 pm on 11-09-07. That's cuz they are 8 hours ahead
of you and it was already the next day for them when they hit send
on their computer.



> Tonks_op
> who's math is only a little better than Rowlings.

Mike, who unlike JKR understands that 40 kids per class comes out to
280 kids at Hogwarts, not 1,000. And also understands that 3,000 or
so long living witches and wizards in the British Isles is highly 
unlikely to produce 1,000 kids to stock Hogwarts, even with 1/4 of 
them being Muggleborn.