JohnC
November 23, 2002, 06:32 am
On some mailing lists to which I subscribe I've noticed that I'm getting mail far sooner than intended - in other words several hours before it's written. :)
This is probably due to users of those lists having their time zone settings left as the Windows default of Seattle [UT(GMT) -8:00] rather than adjusting to real local time. Hence a message written today at 09:30 European time [UT +1:00] but with a time zone of Seattle as mentioned will be sorted out of order, last in the list. The time in Seattle has not, could not, have reached 09:30 local time when I received the message, hence the sort out of order. That happens in Eudora, which is intelligent enough to sort out Time Zones if they are applied correctly.
There was another obscure matter of a version of a Java help objecting if you kept, say, US regional settings but changed the currency symbol to your local currency rather than changing the region.
To cure the first, check the Time Zone setting in the clock (right click/properties) or date and time settings in the control panel. For the second, it's control panel, regional settings.
P.S. - I know it's different in Linux - it's also, IMHO, somewhat easier to get right.
This is probably due to users of those lists having their time zone settings left as the Windows default of Seattle [UT(GMT) -8:00] rather than adjusting to real local time. Hence a message written today at 09:30 European time [UT +1:00] but with a time zone of Seattle as mentioned will be sorted out of order, last in the list. The time in Seattle has not, could not, have reached 09:30 local time when I received the message, hence the sort out of order. That happens in Eudora, which is intelligent enough to sort out Time Zones if they are applied correctly.
There was another obscure matter of a version of a Java help objecting if you kept, say, US regional settings but changed the currency symbol to your local currency rather than changing the region.
To cure the first, check the Time Zone setting in the clock (right click/properties) or date and time settings in the control panel. For the second, it's control panel, regional settings.
P.S. - I know it's different in Linux - it's also, IMHO, somewhat easier to get right.