Fix the time/date on your computers please

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Seems there are a bunch of folks mailing this list with incorrect dates set on their computer. I got ~ 100+ emails dated back to 1970 from this list and since my email is set to read them by date received, I had to return to the begining of my mail file to find them. I do not knoe if it is the mailserver doing this or the people sending the mail, but it would be nice if the problem was fixed.

Thanks.
SA

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Seems there are a bunch of folks mailing this list with incorrect dates set
on their computer. I got ~ 100+ emails dated back to 1970 from this list and
since my email is set to read them by date received, I had to return to the
begining of my mail file to find them. I do not knoe if it is the mailserver
doing this or the people sending the mail, but it would be nice if the problem
was fixed.

Thanks.
SA

Oh, it was me! That damn evaluation software I installed in 1970 that I can't stop using... Funny, I haven't received any like that. And I sort by date received as well.

Gavin

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From: “montana” montana@buc99.bsd.st

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Gavin Sinclair wrote:

From: “montana” montana@buc99.bsd.st

Seems there are a bunch of folks mailing this list with incorrect dates set

Funny, I haven't received any like that. And I sort by date received as well.

I think that I had a couple of messages late last week that where dated
1995. Can’t remember who from though.

Rob

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If you really sort by date /received/ then if it’s sorting out of order,
then the date on /your/ computer needs to be corrected.

If you’re sorting by date /sent/, then the sender’s computer needs its
date fixed.

This is why I sort on date /received/ instead of date /sent/ …

– Dossy

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On 2002.12.10, Gavin Sinclair gsinclair@soyabean.com.au wrote:

From: “montana” montana@buc99.bsd.st

Seems there are a bunch of folks mailing this list with incorrect
dates set on their computer. I got ~ 100+ emails dated back to 1970
from this list and since my email is set to read them by date
received, […]

Funny, I haven’t received any like that. And I sort by date received
as well.

–
Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
“He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly – then you can let go and quickly move on.” (p. 70)

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Funny, I haven't received any like that. And I sort by date received as well.

See the headers of [ruby-talk:58364]

Guy Decoux