Email Time Stamp Issues

[nbdiver]

Can anyone help me understand why one of my email accounts shows the incorrect time the email actual came in? The strange thing is this only happens on android devices. Its a shared account at my company and the account receives faxes to our copier then forwards to an email that is shared. The android devices show the wrong time the email was received even though the time on the phone is correct. There are multiple android devices (S3's) that show the exact same but "wrong" time for each email. The two people with apple iPhones in our office do not have this problem. I would think it was an email server or pop3 issue but it works fine on iPhones, just doesn't work on the S3's. Can anyone shed some light? I am new to android and love my S3 just trying to get some kinks worked out like this with android. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[nbdiver]

Anyone?

 

[nbdiver]

Bueller....Bueller???

 

[GSDer]

What kind of 'wrong' time are we talking about here? Is the time off by a few minutes, or (more likely) several hours?

Without knowing the answer I'd go out on a limb and say that the Android devices are probably showing the GMT time rather than the local time zone time. If that's the case I can only suggest trying a different 3rd party email application.

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[nbdiver]

Several hours. The interesting thing is the time shows correctly on the notification bar when an email in this particular account comes in, when I click on it and it takes me to the email app, the time is different. Its done it on K-9, Aquamail, the native email app on the galaxy S3 and now maildroid. That is why I am thinking its more of an android or possibly verizon issue. The only confusing part is it does not happen on iPhones on the verizon network. I don't see a setting with maildroid to set the actual time so I am assuming its going off the phone time?

What kind of 'wrong' time are we talking about here? Is the time off by a few minutes, or (more likely) several hours?

Without knowing the answer I'd go out on a limb and say that the Android devices are probably showing the GMT time rather than the local time zone time. If that's the case I can only suggest trying a different 3rd party email application.

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[GSDer]

Does the 'several hours' happen to equate to GMT?

Anyway, I remember seeing an app (https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ils?id=com.mattprecious.smsfix&token=-zxkcPb8) that would correct SMS time disparities that were due to TMs between different time zones, but I don't know if there was a similar issue/fix for email. Sorry.

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[nbdiver]

No, it ends up being about 3-4 hours different each time. I thought the email time, just like SMS time is based on the carrier's network time on your phone?

Does the 'several hours' happen to equate to GMT?

Anyway, I remember seeing an app (https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ils?id=com.mattprecious.smsfix&token=cNLS0npZ) that would correct SMS time disparities that were due to TMs between different time zones, but I don't know if there was a similar issue/fix for email. Sorry.

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[jeffjam]

I just switched this morning from a blackberry and had teh very same issue with time stamps for SMS, Emails and Whats app messages being 5 hours ahead. I have just sorted it out and its ok now, if you go into settings, date and time, check what time zone you have selected. mine was incorrect and therefore automatically kept correcting the incoming messages to the "worng" timezone. When you do correct the time zone you will need to reset the time on the clock as it will also be adjusted. Works perfect now!

 

[nbdiver]

Unfortunately that is not my problem. My timezone is correct and automatically updates on the network date and time from Verizon.

I just switched this morning from a blackberry and had teh very same issue with time stamps for SMS, Emails and Whats app messages being 5 hours ahead. I have just sorted it out and its ok now, if you go into settings, date and time, check what time zone you have selected. mine was incorrect and therefore automatically kept correcting the incoming messages to the "worng" timezone. When you do correct the time zone you will need to reset the time on the clock as it will also be adjusted. Works perfect now!