Time Zone in Received Emails

[Anand Mandapati]

I have a very weird problem where I was traveling in Asia (GMT+9h) this
morning and then came back to the US (GMT-8h), changed the time zones in
MacOS appropriately, but the emails I got in Asia are still listed as having
been received in the future while new emails are being received in the US
time zone. How do I reset all the received times to be in the same time
zone? This is what Apple Mail and my Blackberry do.

 

[William Smith]

I have a very weird problem where I was traveling in Asia (GMT+9h) this
morning and then came back to the US (GMT-8h), changed the time zones in
MacOS appropriately, but the emails I got in Asia are still listed as having
been received in the future while new emails are being received in the US
time zone. How do I reset all the received times to be in the same time
zone? This is what Apple Mail and my Blackberry do.

Your messages were still *received* at those times. Instead, view them
by when they were *sent*. Select View --> Columns --> Sent. That is a
better indicator of when the message was composed and delivered to your
server as opposed to when you checked and downloaded messages (a few
hours? a few days?) later.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[Anand Mandapati]

Your messages were still *received* at those times. Instead, view them
by when they were *sent*. Select View --> Columns --> Sent. That is a
better indicator of when the message was composed and delivered to your
server as opposed to when you checked and downloaded messages (a few
hours? a few days?) later.

Yes, that was one of the first things I tried. Turns out, Exchange uses the
local time zone for Sent time as well and then never updates it if the time
zone changes. The only solution I could think of was to completely rebuild
my cache again from Exchange in my usual time zone. But this is quite an
annoying problem as I do travel often.

-anand