Hiya. I've a friend in Colorado, USA that i e-mail regularly to. I hadn't heard from her for a day or so, which is unusual for the weekend. She's wriiten tonight saying she'd forgot to adjust her laptop for GMT in order to send me her e-mail.
I always thought that e-mails from the USA or any other country were just automatically sent to your laptop's e-mail inbox. Ready for you to check whenever. I use Hotmail by the way. Is this actually true or is this an elaborate excuse? We're quite good friends actually. I always write usually in the wee small hours when i've come home from work and i've never adjusted my e-mails for any timezone. I just send it and have had no problems. It'd the first i've heard of someone in US having to adjust timezones to send mail to someone here in the UK. Help!
2006-11-25 14:08:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
First, a lesson in technology. Your assumption is correct. You don't need to change timezone settings to send mail to someone in a different country. You hit SEND and it goes straight to the mail server, and it then gets forwarded it to your inbox.
Stick with me though. Sure... it could be an elaborate excuse. Just imagine what I said above was wrong, it still wouldn't matter. You see, they are BEHIND us for a start. So, if she sent a mail at 5pm her time, it would be 11pm our time (already past 5pm!), so there wouldn't be any need for her to 'adjust her timezone to get it to send'.
What COULD happen is that her mail, which she sent at 5pm her time, has a "timestamp" of 5pm. So instead of appearing at the top of your inbox (above the mail you received at 7pm, 9pm, 10pm GMT from UK senders) it could fall below those mails. So your inbox may look like this arranged in date/time order:
1. Spam Mail - spam sender - 11pm
2. Another Mail - another friend - 9pm
3. Some Junk - junk mail - 7pm
4. Hi There - YOUR FRIEND - 5pm EST (11pm GMT)
Hope that explains a bit....
2006-11-25 14:24:41 · answer #1 · answered by demnity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the USA and I've never had to adjust my laptop computer for a specific time zone to send or receive e-mail.
2006-11-25 14:18:54 · answer #2 · answered by Lizzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also live n Colorado and my server makes no difference with "zones" etc. It is all in real time. My server sends when I write ie. now 8.40pm Colorado USA and my mum is in Manchester England and for her it is 4.40am on Sunday.
I hate to sound negative, but it sounds like an excuse unless it is some strange thing with her server. By the way we set our clocks back on Saturday 28th October this year.
Good luck
2006-11-25 14:40:33 · answer #3 · answered by suzy c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm in texas, usa. im o my laptop right now and i have a friend in ireland, a hubby in iraq, and family in london. your friend is using excuses. I have never had to adjust my timezones to receieve and or send them, and vice versa for my friends and family!
2006-11-25 14:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by cambria 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jackieb It's your news?
http://www.osoq.com/funstuff/extra/extra04.asp?strName=jackieb
2006-11-25 14:20:45 · answer #5 · answered by mpg p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋