Setting clocks

[Bill Stewart]

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 at 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 at 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.