why does email from my sister (gmail) show recieved about 20 minutes in the future?

[Kali]

Last edited Fri Aug 20, 2021, 02:49 PM - Edit history (1)

I use Thunderbird, and as far as I can tell all other email I get comes "on time" but hers is at least 20 minutes "fast"

example: I can be talking to her at 10:30 and she sends something while we are on the phone and if I hit reply or forward the header email will say "On 8/20/2021 10:50 AM, Kali's sister wrote:" (in the future!)

Is it her computer? her gmail? my computer? she says her computer shows the right time and date but gmail is screwy anyway, so I think that is where the problem is.

I found a few contradictory things on the google - either computer or gmail so not sure what to mess with first and her eyes glaze over pretty quickly with this stuff so if there is a simple fix that would be best. LOL


EDIT and UDATE: she seems to have fixed it by changing computer clock to AUTO and time settings in Gmail. the other minutes disparity may be related to how/when Thunderbird downloads my email? I don't know, that seems to have stopped too.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Just remember that her emails show 20 minutes fast and get on w/your life

is my advice

[Kali]

2. nope

this has been going on for a long time and it finally crossed my annoyance threshold. must solve!!! (also she works in corporate world and it could matter when she goes back to work)

[LuvLoogie]

4. different timezone of origin?

timezone of the corporate google workspace account?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. That would explain it being off by increments of an hour

20 minutes seems pretty odd if it's a TZ issue.

[Kali]

6. all in same timezone

but as mentioned, it is an amount of less than a full hour...that is the super weird thing.

[LuvLoogie]

8. Maybe a combination of her computer clock and her 0wn gmail settings

https://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-fix-wrong-timestamps-on-gmail-messages.html

[Kali]

13. thanks for that

although that thread went on for years! I found a couple of good hints and she seems to have got it fixed. setting her computer clock to auto and something in gmail itself.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Saw this after my reply-- never occurred to me she would have manual timing...

The lost or gained time gains a lot after a while.

[liberaltrucker]

3. Obama's time machine?

[Kali]

7. usually these things are my fault

(and may be yet!)

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Only her, or other gmail users with the same problem?

[Kali]

10. only her...BUT

I just checked email on my phone via chrome, web based mail and it shows a mail from on the inbox list as coming in at 10:01 this morning and when I open and hit reply it shows the mail at 9:50:54.

so at least three different times on two "platforms?"

10:50 on Thunderbird on desktop.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. just a guess, but somewhere between Gmail's server and Thunderbird...

there's a glitch in whatever (probably Tbird) uses to check the time).

I've noticed some curious things with Thunderbird myself, but just never bothered to let them bother me.

Most of the time, anyway, when messages "hide" for a while, it drive me nuts. And I can't stop some of the filters from working.

Thunderbird is one of the best out there for lots of things, but it does do some silly things.

[Kali]

17. yeah it acts up sometimes and I have to reboot it every now and then

I just assumed it was the 1000s of old emails I never get around to sorting/deleting. I go on binges of deleting but never get far.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Same problem here. But once I opened it up and found 14,000 new Hotmail...

messages. That was after cleaning out Hotmail.

[Irish_Dem]

11. My brother never lets me live in my own space-time continuum either.

What's wrong with you guys.

[Kali]

12. LOL!

she was irritated at my obsession but we seem to have fixed it.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Sisters get irritated when pulled out of their time warps.

Just saying.

[canetoad]

19. Long shot....

Either the sending or receiving computer has a motherboard battery that's failing. First sign of this is usually computer time goes skew-iff.

[Kali]

20. I think we fixed it but will watch

for more.