[Why is the timestamp in offline IMs sent via Email different than SLT ?]

Ok, ok, Echo ... I got it. I'll buy you a drink

[Why is the timestamp in offline IMs sent via Email different than SLT ?]

Ok, Echo, I did my homework. I checked other ims i have gotten via email, from people east and west. Funny, sometimes the time difference between the timestamp in the IM and the email timestamp is 9 hours (as it should be since it is the time difference between my RL time zone and California) and sometimes it is not that.

So, I don't think it is the receiver server who adds that timestamp in the IM, but the sender server. I guess it depends on "HOW" you are connecting to the grid.

[Why is the timestamp in offline IMs sent via Email different than SLT ?]

Well, thanks Luc. Not so sure it is the receiver which adds the timestamp, since it is in the content of the email and not in the email details.

But it is a strange behavior indeed, starting with the server NOT in DST.

Anyway, thank you all for the replies

 

BTW, the system of posting "answers" and "comments" makes things a little hard to read. Just my 2 cents.

[Why is the timestamp in offline IMs sent via Email different than SLT ?]

Thanks Echo, you confirmed my guess (well at least partially). Any message sent to me (IM sent via email when I am offline), might go to a server in the UK, which is not in daylight saving time, and then that server puts the stamp, which in this case would be two hours behind for me. Now, I have only one doubt left. The person who sent the message lives in London and therefore the two hour behind could be explained as above. But what if a person lives in NYC? Would it still have the London, two hours behind timestamp, or would it have the a timestamp reflecting NYC time? In other words, the timestamp depends on the receiver or the sender ?

 

Sorry about all these questions, but I am intrigued by the technical "secrets" behind

[Why is the timestamp in offline IMs sent via Email different than SLT ?]

Thanks Valerie, but I am still confused. I live in Europe (Berlin-Paris time zone), and I received an IM via email sent to me at about 11:30 my time.

The time stamp showed "[09:30]" and the IM when logging on to SL, showed "2:30". Now I understand the latter (California, i.e., LL time) but I don't understand what causes the 2 hour difference.

[Why is the timestamp in offline IMs sent via Email different than SLT ?]

I have noticed that when an offline IM is sent via email to me, the timestamp is different.

Does anybody know why? Does it depend on my rl local time ?