I'm pretty sure it wasn't supernatural. I doubt if it will elucidate
anything, but we're 11 hours ahead of UTC, having entered the execrable
daylight 'saving' period early Sunday morning.
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At 13:43 31/10/2007 +0000, Ursula Huws wrote:
Could it have had to do with the clocks going back and a certain
amount of manual resetting of the time on the various servers through
which messages pass? It is easy to make a slip and even if this is
corrected pretty quickly a few messages may still pass through with
an incorrect time stamp, best wishes, Ursula
I did consider that, but it would have required that the identical error
had been perpetrated by Ray's computer and two Open University servers, and
I concluded that the p-vale for that was extremely small - unless, of
course, they were all running on 'synchronised time' (which I guess is a
possibility):
Received: ...by venus.open.ac.uk .... Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:58:47 +0000
Received: .. by kliper.open.ac.uk .... Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:58:47 +0000
(Ray's computer) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:58:46
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However, as I keep saying, the fact is that if Ray had not sent his message
until fairly soon before (rather than nearly 24 hours before) it arrived at
JISCmail (and the apparent 24-hour delay had merely been a consequence of
incorrect clocks), then we would have a miracle to investigate - since
Harry replied to it several hours before that!
Kind Regards,
John
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