Email Auto-Dating Change

tony_123 | 03:14 Sun 01st May 2016 | Computers

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When the UK switches between Greenwich Meant Time (GMT) and British Summer Time (BST), can I stop historic emails from automatically changing dates?

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TheChair

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dates and times in emails are actually stored and transmitted as UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). When you view such a date-time, a program does its best to translate that into your local time. This might sound simple, but is, in fact, incredibly complicated, especially for historic dates. The dates in your emails are not actually changing, they are just...

08:54 Sun 01st May 2016

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TheChair

dates and times in emails are actually stored and transmitted as UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). When you view such a date-time, a program does its best to translate that into your local time. This might sound simple, but is, in fact, incredibly complicated, especially for historic dates.

The dates in your emails are not actually changing, they are just being displayed differently. If you are interested, there is a video explaining the problem from a programmer's perspective.

tony_123

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To The Chair. Thanks. Whilst I have no degree in IT Technology like many that I have, I do understand your answer. Thanks from Tony

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