There was a while that purpleturtle.com, a free email service based in Jersey (Channel Islands, not New Jersey), was off by about half a day; not even a round number of hours. After I nagged them about it a couple of times, they fixed it. At 08:54 PM 09/26/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, September 26, 2001, at 01:46 PM, keyser-soze@hushmail.com wrote:
One-way pagers are a great anonymous way to signal, especially since Web interfaces were offered. With coded messages, originated from public access terminals and disguised as phone numbers, a lot of command and control is practical.
At 07:32 PM 9/26/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2001, at 06:15 PM, Nilsphone@aol.com wrote:
You and others should try to fix your times and timezones, or to ask why Hushmail is sending messages dated in the past. Look at the time of your message and of the one you respond to. (John Young also has the problem, with his message several hours into the future from when he clearly posted them.) This is a problem because many of us, even most of us, sort our messages by the date they are stamped.
Not the most important problem in the world, but worth it for folks to spend a couple of minutes setting their system clocks accurately or inquiring with Hushmail or whatever why they are incorrectly time-stamping mail.