Slightly OT: Whose clock is off - or is this a server anomaly?

[Cerridwen]

I received (or rather my father did) two emails this evening, and the one
that arrived later had an earlier time stamp. Both senders are in the UK
(we're all in the same county). Sender A's message had a stamp of 21:23, yet
it arrived much earlier than this (about 4pm IIRC); Sender B's had a stamp
of 20:09, yet it arrived not 10 minutes ago. Where is the time stamped,
their computer, their server - or mine?

IOW, do I need to tell someone to fix their clock, or is this something to
do with a server (either mine or theirs)? Everything is correct, timewise,
this end.

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

I received (or rather my father did) two emails this evening, and the
one that arrived later had an earlier time stamp. Both senders are in
the UK (we're all in the same county). Sender A's message had a stamp
of 21:23, yet it arrived much earlier than this (about 4pm IIRC);
Sender B's had a stamp of 20:09, yet it arrived not 10 minutes ago.
Where is the time stamped, their computer, their server - or mine?

Outlook reports the date it sees in the message, so the date reported is the
date on the senders machine. I'm not sure you reported your local time
accurately in your first example, but your second example seems to indicate
that sender's clock is either four hours out of sync or 20 (20:09 on the
message, 00:09 on your machine when you saw it arrive).