Gmail time off

[Ricardo Prado]

Hello there

I've been having some trouble with Gmail's time stamps. A few days
earlier, it was one hour off. Now, it's two. When I check the timezone
in Account Settings, it's correct. I use -0300, for Brazil. And my e-
mails are dated two hours ahead, as if it were -0100, I dunno.

What should I do? All the help I get tells me to fix the timezone
settings, but they're "correct" already.

Thanks in advance.

[Nick Chirchirillo]

Is your computer's time set correctly?  GMail uses your system time to time-stamp emails.

--
-Nick

[Andrew Ingraham]

> I've been having some trouble with Gmail's time stamps. A few days
> earlier, it was one hour off. Now, it's two.

The time stamp on emails also comes from the time and the timezone settings
on the computers of the people sending and receiving the message. That is,
the computer in your home or office used to login to Gmail.

Now that we are into October where some countries change between Daylight
Saving and Standard time, and where the dates of those changes have
themselves changed, we can expect some problems like this.

If Brazil has changed the dates lately (like the U.S. did last year), you
may need to install a patch to correct the operating system's schedule of
time zone changes. Both the sender and recipient computers need to be
up-to-date on this for the timestamp to be correct.

Andy

[bkennelly]

Which browser? Chrome has a problem with time zones in the southern
hemisphere.

What do you get if you enter "javascript:new%20Date()" in a new tab or
window?

[xavier...@gmail.com]

Make sure that you set your time VIA internet.

--
Xavier A. Mathews
Student/Developer/Web-Master
GG Client Based Tech Support Specialist
Hazel Crest Illinois
xavier...@gmail.com
"Fear of a name, only increases fear of the thing itself."

[xavier...@gmail.com]

Ok but not all of us are emailing out of the country and even then it
is still going to be set via are time.

[Andrew Ingraham]

> Ok but not all of us are emailing out of the country and even then it
> is still going to be set via are time.

The country's got nothing to do with it. You can both be in the same time
zone.

Back in 2007 when we changed to Daylight Saving time (new date), even my own
mails to myself were coming with the wrong timestamp. Why? Because my
computer thought it was still Standard time, even though we had reset its
clock to make it think the time was correct. But the full timestamp in the
email headers includes the number of hours offset from UTC, and that number
was wrong. Fudging that (by telling Windows I was in a different timezone)
didn't work either.

It was necessary to apply the patch (which changes a couple of Windows
Registry settings) to make things right.

Andy

[xavier...@gmail.com]

Like we both said it is not the country it may be the browser. This
has nothing to do w/Java. G~Mail i think is already configured to the
users location.

On 10/13/2008, Andrew Ingraham <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote:
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