So I got an email from the future yesterday...

[BrokenVisage]

Right around the time Roy Halladay got done throwing his no-hitter I decided to check my email and saw I got some ordinary ad/spam mail from eBay amoung others. The funny thing about the eBay email was that it came in as 1:17am Thursday morning even though it was still around 9:00 Wednesday night where I was, so Outlook put it at the top of my Inbox under the category of 'Tomorrow'. Can someone explain the theory behind this? I'm on the east coast so unless it adjusted to GMT or something I can't figure it out.

 

[Anubis]

it came from asia

 

[Lotheron]

Pretty sure like anything else in an email, time can be spoofed.

 

[JTsyo]

future you found a great deal on ebay but was too late getting to it, so he send past you an email so you could snipe it but present you got the email first and is now confused.

 

[rcpratt]

Time is easy to spoof in an email.

 

[rockyct]

I remember this used to be a problem with outlook. It would time stamp the email with whatever time the sender's computer was set to. It's not hard to imagine how off the clock can be for most computer users.