Summary: If the time on your Windows Live Hotmail messages is wrong by hours, it's likely because you have the wrong time zone selected. We'll fix that.
The time on my outgoing mail is wrong, and I can't find the time zone setting after the latest round of Windows Live Hotmail changes. Where do I change it.
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The location of the time zone setting has moved, along with a few other things.
I'll walk you through resetting it.
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Like many of these settings, once you've logged in, click on the Options link:
Then click on the More Options item:
And on the resulting page, click on View and edit your personal information:
Click on the Registered Information link:
On the resulting page, along with various other details you set up when you registered your Hotmail account, is the time zone setting:
Make sure that it's set correctly to ensure that Windows Live Hotmail places the correct time on your outgoing mails.
Related:
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Why is the time on my email wrong? Email is time stamped by the program that creates it. Normally Window's time, date and time zone are used. Web services, however, need a little more.
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Why is my PC's clock wrong? Your PC's clock is probably good, but not great. Left uncorrected it can drift and lose accuracy. There's an internet service for that.
Article C3631 - January 22, 2009
I was struggling to changethe time and sepnd hours to find out. Thanks a lot for your explanation.
Posted by: Sanjay at September 15, 2009 7:52 PMThis was exactly what I needed to get something corrected.
Posted by: Lars at September 16, 2009 7:42 PMThank you so much! I could never figure how to change the setting and hence, never knew the time my emails were sent. Cheers to you! Thank you!
Posted by: Dharshini at September 17, 2009 7:46 PMTHANK YOU!!! Oh my goodness my time has been wrong for over 4 yrs...
Posted by: Ashy at October 6, 2009 12:00 AMTHank you for the useful info. VERY EASY to fix, mae me fell almost dubm you made it so easy!
Posted by: Jay at October 13, 2009 9:46 AMTHANKS so much for the clear directions on how to change the time stamp on hotmail. The first link that I clicked had outdated directions and I got NOWHERE. THANKS again.
Posted by: Owena at October 14, 2009 12:41 AMThe time zone change has been popping up all the time and I could not figure out how to do it. This fixed it. thank you very much. I do not have any monies right now to put in your tip jar, but I will be able to soon.
Posted by: Carol Zamecnik at October 15, 2009 8:15 PMThank you SO much for the directions on how to fix the time on my email account. I wish I would have found this page much sooner!!
Posted by: Jodi at October 21, 2009 11:29 AMOMG THX :D Always hated how in my inbox it showed "Yesterday" even though it was like only 7 PM :P
Posted by: MasterOfTheXP at November 10, 2009 8:04 PMThank you very much for posting this information, now I don't have to do math everytime I read my e-mail.
Posted by: GraceD at November 19, 2009 9:20 AM