Mail message viewer-can I change time zone for "time received" & "time sent" to my local time?

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Mail message viewer-can I change time zone for "time received" & "time sent" to my local time?

Does anyone know how to change the time zone MAIL uses to one's local time zone? I'm talking about Apple's Mail Program that's "on my mac." It shows all my "times sent" and "times received" in eastern time. Not a big deal, but since I'm on the west coast, I'd prefer pacific time. The menu bar at the very top of the screen shows local time, but Mail doesn't reflect that. I have a desktop iMac, Lion 10.7.3. Any help will be much appreciated!

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Feb 25, 2012 7:13 AM

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Answer 1

Carlo TD

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Mar 6, 2012 9:07 PM in response to RainyWeather

Go into your system preferences, and select date and time. And put a check mark where it says update automatically. And in your time zone, put your correct time zone.

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RainyWeather Author

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Mar 7, 2012 6:07 AM in response to Carlo TD

Hi Carlo,

You are so kind about helping people. Thank you very much!

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jciccare

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Oct 15, 2013 4:58 AM in response to RainyWeather

I had the same situation on my current business trip. Home = SF (Pacific time), current location = Houston (Central time, 2 hours later). For a message I just sent (and received a copy of) at 6:34 AM local (Houston) time, Mail (v6.6, in Mountain Lion 10.8.5) was displaying Date Received as 4:34 AM. I can tell 'ya, it's *not* 4:34 AM where I'm sitting 🙂

My practice on any trip to a different time zone is just what Carlo TD described -- use SysPrefs/DateTime to change the TZ to local geographic (and also change Calendar's TZ at upper right in its window, but that's not related to the Mail issue). But when I did so, Mail didn't repaint its Date Received column. On a hunch, I quit and re-started Mail. Problem solved -- all the Date Received values changed to local (Houston) time!

Now to send Apple a Feedback that Mail doesn't repaint its displayed times when SysPrefs/DateTime changes the TZ...

[Interestingly, when I just posted this reply, the message in the thread shows something like "4:54 AM". Perhaps Apple displays all Support threads in Cupertino (Pacific) time...]

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