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Why does Tbird use a time different from my system's time?

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Thunderbird is assigning a time to my received messages that is 8 hours later than the time in my operating system(which is correct). Why, and how to correct it?

Thunderbird is assigning a time to my received messages that is 8 hours later than the time in my operating system(which is correct). Why, and how to correct it?

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The time on your system clock might be correct but I bet if you check you are on the wrong timezone.

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The time on your system clock might be correct but I bet if you check you are on the wrong timezone.

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Bingo. Hadn't thought of that. Thanks.