incorrect date showing when I received emails

[karweng]

Can anyone help me out here, when I receive emails, the date showing is way out of the present date, sometime its showing 2018 or 2005, Is this from the sender who has the time/date set wrongly on their end?

 

[mscallisto]

If it's just from one sender I would say yes they have a date set wrong, but is that the case?

Do all your e-mails have bogus dates?

Give us all the details you have.

 

[KeyTech]

Its almost definitely your time/date that is wrong,
go to the Control Panel and double click on the Date/Time icon and make sure that you have the correct settings. Also make sure that you have the correct Time Zone.

If you are in work, and are using Exchange Server, the problem is with the settings on that server, and not your PC, contact your system administrator and he/she will look after it for you...

Again, if none of the about are applicable, as mscallisto said, give us some more details!!!!! Jay~

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[karweng]

Hi guys,

The problem is certain external email that we are receiving thas has the incorrect date. Our current local mail server program is MS MAIL and using S-Bridge to route the internal mail out as well as receiving from it. I have checked email's header and cant find any error within it. Can anyone giving some points to where to check?

 

[mscallisto]

Again we need a bit more info.

Is the "certain external email" just from ONE person or ONE company or ONE time zone

keep try'in

 

[karweng]

The problem is the whole company emails, some emails we received having this problem but some isnt, that's the weird thing, even within the same timezone I'm still having problem with the year.

 

[mscallisto]

Well I think you've answered all the questions and still I'm at a loss.

I'm just grasping at straws but am curious what your regional settings look like.

From control panel can you double click the regional settings icon, pick the date tab and look for any unusual settings?

 

[karweng]

The problem is the date stamp of some emails we are receiving is incorrect order, for example instead of 29/10/2001 its showing up as 10/01/2029, I have checked the mail server there's isnt any setting to allow you to change it.

 

[mscallisto]

Can you tell what settings are set in the date tab?

From control panel can you double click the regional settings icon, pick the date tab.

Mine is as follows:
Calendar type Gregorian
When a 2 digit year is entered, interpret as a year between
1930 and 2029
short date sample 11/19/01
short date style M/d/yy
Date separator /

long date sample Monday, November 19,2001
long date style dddd,MMMM dd,yyyy

Muck Luck

 

[karweng]

Hi,

I have changed the format of the date to sample you have given, but still its showing up in the wrong way around.

 

[mscallisto]

I am not at all familiar with S-Bridge but noticed at

http://www.cmsconnect.com/S-Bridge/sbMain.htm

that it can do time zone adjustments.

Can S-bridge be the problem?

 

[BEARCAT3]

I am no expert. but it seems to me that there are three formats for dates:

American 11/26/01 (example, November 26, 2001)

European 26/11/01 (exemple, le 26 Novembre, 2001) (French)

Ordinal 2001/11/26


So, if you put in 29/10/2001, it is reading it as an ordinal = 2029.10.01 which translates to 10/01/2029.

From what you have written, the computer is translating the European version and making it into an ordinal number. The ordinal date helps for computers so that the code can work with math operations. In other words, once the ordinal date is translated to a code, you can add and subtract numbers to get the forward or past date for calculations in such things as bond yield-to-maturity, etc.

I don't know if I am correct but by understanding what the computer is doing, you might be able to figure out where the problem is.

Good luck,

Jim Parks
JimitheP3@aol.com