Inbox time stamp incorrect

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Inbox time stamp incorrect

I've seen this brought up several times with no satisfactory answer.

I just switched from Entourage to Mail, and every piece of mail, both imported and new, looks as if it arrived during the 7:00 hour.

I've sent myself several test e-mails from one account to another. A message I sent at 8:42 pm said it arrived at 7:42 pm.

You would think it's just a time zone problem... at first.

I sent another message at 9:05 pm. Mail says it came in at...

7:05 pm.

As an uber-loyal (and fairly proficient) Mac user, I'm perplexed, flummoxed even.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

PB G4 867 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 14, 2006 6:14 PM

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Answer 1

Sijmons

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May 15, 2006 11:56 AM in response to majmccuin

so it's back to the future or something like that eh?

When you look at that mail with the LongHeaders (menu View > messages),
can you deduce where its time is going out of sync?

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majmccuin Author

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May 16, 2006 3:13 AM in response to majmccuin

The problem HAS to be with the app. Here's an example of a header, which shows the correct times (in GMT). The "Date Received" column in Mail says this message was received at 7:11 am.

From: xxxxx.xxxxx@us.army.mil
Subject: test email
Date: May 16, 2006 6:09:43 AM EDT
To: tom@mccuin.org
Return-Path: <xxxxx.xxxxx@us.army.mil>
Delivered-To: xxxxx-xxxxx@mccuin.org
Received: (qmail 32421 invoked by uid 2525); 16 May 2006 10:11:44 -0000
Received: from 143.69.242.38 by host107.ipowerweb.com (envelope-from <xxxxx.xxxxx@us.army.mil>, uid 1003) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.88/1238. spamassassin: 3.1.0. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:0(143.69.242.38):SA:0(0.5/5.0):. Processed in 5.831708 secs); 16 May 2006 10:11:44 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mxoutdr1.us.army.mil) (143.69.242.38) by host107.ipowerweb.com with SMTP; 16 May 2006 10:11:38 -0000
Received: from c-69-143-107-204.hsd1.va.comcast.net (HELO [69.143.107.204]) ([69.143.107.204]) by mxoutdr1.us.army.mil with ESMTP; 16 May 2006 10:09:48 +0000
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=5.0
Domainkey-Signature: s=ako; d=us.army.mil; c=nofws; q=dns; b=N7ZamDJ5AcULVrzwVHstMwUbS72q0VRHyYx4LCWt/Bqp2vmwEJc1qfBZ2bnJscQbUbBlS9VQgv3L4 1anyucRFA==;
X-Ako: 280735189:69.143.107.204:16 May 2006 10:09:48 +0000:$AuthSMTP:-0.7
X-Ako-Attachments: None
X-Ironport-Av: i="4.05,133,1146441600"; d="scan'208"; a="280735189:sNHT44034165"
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <7B1AB849-B46F-4D8B-85F4-A55223DFD356@us.army.mil>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750)

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Answer 3

Sijmons

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May 16, 2006 11:28 AM in response to majmccuin

mmmm, this would still look like an issue with the time zone you have set for your Mac. I know you said you looked, but I want to make sure to rule this out:

System Preferences, Date & Time, click the Tab time zone.
Does this correspond with your time zone
Set time to automatic checkbox ON or OFF?

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Answer 4

Vipir

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May 16, 2006 11:39 AM in response to majmccuin

Could it be the server that's handling the mail has its time not set right?

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Answer 5

majmccuin Author

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May 16, 2006 6:06 PM in response to Vipir

Time zone is correct, and set to get the time automatically from Apple's server. The time and date in the Menu Bar are correct.

There are two reasons why I think the app is the problem:

1) The time in the Default Headers is correct;
2) Entourage was not doing this. This is only happening in Mail.app, which I decided to start using the other day.

Many thanks for your continued thoughts...

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Answer 6

Aug 2, 2006 11:55 AM in response to majmccuin

I have been trying to get any of the code gurus to explain why this is happening in the finder also.

(Gave up trying to get any explanation of what is going on with mail never showing the sender information in 'big message' alerts.)

SOMETHING in the guts of the OS is fubar in how it establishes the correct time and date information, just where is beyond my non-programmers knowledgebase to ken. At least on my G4 it appears to NOT be limited to just Mail.

GOOD luck getting any answers.

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majmccuin Author

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Aug 2, 2006 5:30 PM in response to Boson Engineer

I noticed after posting my original message that this was happening in the Findert as well. I'm stumped, and frankly tired of people saying I have the wrong time zone set (I've been using Macs for almost as long as there have been Macs and know them pretty well). The hour in my system never changes from 7 (although the clock in the MenuBar displays the correct time..

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