Outlook has wrong time on e-mails.

[syrnypolice]

I am having a problem with Outlook 2000 on a Windows XP OS. This is Regular Outlook, not Outlook Express. The e-mails are coming in showing a date time stamp that is an hour behind. My system clock is correct. Just the Outlook is wrong. Any idea why?

[hudsonsmith]

You say these are income emails? The time stamp is probably coming from the mail server. Likely it was never changed for daylight savings.

[Ya_know]

One PC or the other may be set to the incorrect timezone...check that too.

[corturbra]

One PC or the other may be set to the incorrect timezone...check that too.

Yep the most likely culprit....

Won't hurt to check your mail server settings as well.

[ledfoot]

I was having the exact same problem with Outlook 2003, running XP. The time was 1 hour behind on email messages received, despite my desktop clock displaying the correct time. I checked the time zone and confirmed it was correct, clicked OK, and when I returned to Outlook the times had all updated to the correct time. It just started about a week ago out of the blue. Thanks for your suggestions...glad it's working.

[Windrivers99]

Question/Problem: Whenever you receive a message in my Outlook XP/2002 mail client, Outlook reports that the received time is several hours off when you actual received the message. (The headers of the message and the timestamp there are correct).

Answer/Solution: Outlook XP can synchronize its clock independently of the Windows system clock. This can cause the timestamp to appear incorrectly on messages. To correct this, on the Internet Time tab of the Date and Time properties, uncheck Automatically Synchronize. If this is already unchecked then make sure your zone (-+nnn hours) has been set correctly.

See http://www.helpwithpcs.com/tipsandtr...properties.gif

[frankstir]

I don't have the Internet Time tab. I disabled the Windows Time service to fix the 1 hour difference with Outlook (including appointments!).