G-Mail Custom Time = Cheating?
 

This just doesn't seem right. We now have a business that will support your efforts to deceive. Here is what is on the main gmail screen this morning:

"New! Gmail Custom TimeTM
Ever wish you could go back in time and send that crucial email that could have changed everything -- if only it hadn't slipped your mind? Gmail can now help you with those missed deadlines, missed birthdays and missed opportunities.

Pre-date your messages
You tell us what time you would have wanted your email sent, and we'll take care of the rest. Need an email to arrive 6 hours ago? No problem.

Mark as read or unread
Take sending emails to the past one step further. We let you make emails look like they've been read all along.

Make them count
Use your custom time stamped messages wisely -- each Gmail user gets ten per year.

Worry less
Forget your finance reports. Forget your anniversary. We'll make it look like you remembered"

Is today the first day of April... ;)

Yep, Googlers are notorious for their 4/1 pranks :)

;) How do you send an email now and have it reach it's destination 6 hours ago???

I think, as the kids say, you got pwned! ;)

equality72521 - the time/date stamp is set by the client software (as is the from name, email, etc). Only way to determine what time a mail was actually sent is to view the headers and read them... assuming of course that the machine with the changed time wasn't also acting as its own SMTP server...

I was refering to this part of the quote. ;)

April fools.

You can do this yourself by simply turning your clock back, send the mail and move the clock forward again.

We once had a problem with emails from Japan taking 14 hours or so to be delivered to the NY office.

It was a closed system so there were mail servers on both ends handling everything.

Had one of the guys in the Japan office send emails to my night guy and call him as soon as he hit send.

Night guy waited and sure enough the mail showed up 14 hours later.

Told my night guy to try it again the next day but check the mail queue when he got the call.

Sure enough the mail was sitting in the delivery queue with a scheduled delivery time of 14 hours later.

Japan is 14 hours ahead and the mail server had no idea how to handle mail from "the future" so it just held onto it.

Damn, I am so pwned! Thanks for the laugh on me this morning guys! :D

Here's another one on Google -> Virgle:

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

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