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Emails have wrong time in gmail

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Elias K Gardner replied 8 years ago
Elias K Gardner
Elias K Gardner

All emails in gmail are reported coming in 4 hours later. Ex. its 11:00am EDT = GMT/UTC – 4 any emails I get now show up as coming in at 3:00pm. My system time, as well as my google calendar time, are correct. I've also disabled all extensions and still have this problem.

What could cause it?

All emails in gmail are reported coming in 4 hours later. Ex. its 11:00am EDT = GMT/UTC – 4 any emails I get now show up as coming in at 3:00pm. My system time, as well as my google calendar time, are correct. I've also disabled all extensions and still have this problem. What could cause it?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer

Chosen Solution

Are you using privacy.resistFingerprinting => true ? That setting informs websites you are in the UTC time zone, which is 4 hours later than you during Summer, and 5 hours later on standard time.

It's possible to fix the display with a user script, but it needs to be customized to Gmail's weird and frequently shifting page structure. I started creating one, but didn't complete the job because this isn't a priority for me personally. I posted a link to my code in a thread on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/8a1ksw/websites_think_im_in_the_wrong_timezone/

Elias K Gardner
Elias K Gardner Question owner

That was it. Man, that one little setting messed a bunch of things up for me. Thanks