From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-12-10T00:45:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Fix the time/date on your computers please.

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.

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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