Theoretically that could be done, but it gets complicated.
The program would not only have to know if daylight savings was in
effect then (which can vary from year to year) but also where the
computer was located. Did you live in a different time zone or country
then? Were you traveling with your laptop to another time zone or
country?
So for simplicity, the program assumes that whatever time zone and
daylight sayings is currently in effect was also in effect when the
message was sent/received.
If you look at the message source (Ctrl-F3) you can see the Date header
which will show the time including offset from GMT when the message was
written.
--
Mike -
http://TechHelp.Santovec.us
"Pooter Pan" <> wrote in message
news:C5696DFF-5DC7-43CB-B510-...
> Not so, it's not true to say that "all computer files are handled that
> way",
> though I guess it might be true that all emails systems work this way,
> which
> is what I'd like to know. For example, last week I sent an attachment
> with
> an email, and the attachment "last modified" date was the summer time
> date,
> and still is, but the email date as it appears and prints out has now
> shifted
> to be the winter time date, an hour earlier. My point is that,
> ideally, the
> system should know what daylight saving rule applied when the mail was
> sent,
> and show the appropriate time. The inconvenience for me is twofold.
> One,
> that if I am dealing with archive email and want the true clock time
> of the
> email to appear I have to change the time zone of my computer as a
> work-around while printing or copying that mail. Second, even worse,
> to do
> this and get it right, I need to check when summer time started and
> stopped
> myself. I thought compters were supposed to be smart at handling
> stuff like
> this.
> --
> Pooter
>
>
> "Ron Sommer" wrote:
>
>> All computer files are handled that way.
>> It eliminates files getting the exact same time stamp during the time
>> when
>> you lose an hour or files having a time stamp missing an hour when
>> you gain
>> an hour.
>> Next summer, a files will show with daylight savings time.
>> --
>> Ron Sommer
>> MS MVP-Mail
>>
>>
>> "Pooter Pan" <> wrote in message
>> news:8732DF94-2388-41CF-8ED2-...
>> > Hi. I live in Swindon UK, use Windows Live Mail Version 2009 with
>> > Internet
>> > Explorer 8 and my time zone is GMT London with 1 hour daylight
>> > saving
>> > adjustment in summer. All summer my archive email in Windows Live
>> > Mail
>> > showed the correct dates and times, GMT + 1 hour. But when
>> > daylight
>> > saving
>> > finished on 25 October, all the old email datestamps changed to
>> > GMT,
>> > including the mail sent all summer. Why doesn't my system show the
>> > time I
>> > actually sent and received stuff during the summer? Is there any
>> > way to
>> > fix
>> > this?
>> > --
>> > Pooter Pan, Swindon, UK
>>
>> .
>>
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