Another egroups techie question

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 274

Hi --

Nick Mitchell wrote:

> eGroups is posting files using EDT.   Maybe Outlook or whatever you
> are using got confused (it happens to computers as well as humans)
> and just converted the time wrong.   Out of interest, did the message
> appear an hour in front / behind, or was it just by minutes?

They are out of order in my computer too (but have been for ages).

> Also, another possibility is that when posting the message, the
> date/time may be incorrectly set on the senders computer.  If the
> system Penny is using is running at the wrong time, then it could
> easily produce messages out of time order.

Yikes!  Is this because I'm the list owner?  Since things appear in my
inbox with clearly incorrect times, I've wondered if there was something
wrong with my computer.  It hadn't bothered me enough to really explore
the problem much though.  My computer clock is more or less correct (it
gains or loses time sometimes but is generally within 10 minutes of
being correct).  Is there some setting I should check on my computer?
I'd hate to think I'm inadvertently causing problems for the entire
group.

I'll be in the chatroom later this afternoon, so maybe someone can tell
me then.  Nick, as far as I know the chat is still 8:00 BST (which makes
it 3:00 EST, 2:00 CST, 1:00 MST and 12:00 (noon) on the West coast).  I
will try to first log on to the egroups chat & see if there's anything
going on there.  If not, I'll head over to Yahoo.

Penny



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