MadSci Network: Computer Science
Query:

Re: isn't one's time zone designation fixed solely on geography?

Date: Mon Dec 13 11:38:50 1999
Posted By: Alex Milenkovic, Staff, Internet Security, ICSA, Inc
Area of science: Computer Science
ID: 942958836.Cs
Message:

There are several reasons why you could be seeing this happen.

I am curious whether these emails come from the same source? Also, where 
is the time zone information displayed? In your own mail reader? or on an 
automated website?

Basically, a mailserver can be configured to give out some information 
about the time a message was sent. If you are getting emails from 
different servers in hungary, it is quite possible one is configured to 
tell other servers "I'm at GMT +1" and the other is configured to say "I'm 
at GMT +2". If you see messages coming from the -same- server, I'd say 
this is most likely to be server misconfiguration, on either the sender's 
part, or the receiver's part.

I know there are some time zone oddities out there (Arizona, for example, 
doesn't do the daylight savings/standard time switch, so they go between 
being 3 hours behind Eeastern Time to being 2 hours behind Eastern Time, 
depending on when in the year it is) but nothing that would switch on a 
daily basis, as far as I know.

Alex.


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