[Gmail-Users] Re: how can i add date and time in my gmail compose

On 12/7/05, Gerard Seibert <gerard.seibert@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:29:07 -0000, "sukhbinder.singh@gmail.com" <sukhbinder.singh@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Gmail-Users] how can i add date and time in my gmail compose
> Wrote these words of wisdom:
>
> > hey does anybody knows how i can automatically (like in notepad
> > pressing the F5 key) get date and time stamp in my gmail compose.
> >
> >
> > is it there... and the second request can i see my gmail account
> > via a wap phone... do you know any site that is usefull in this regard.
> >
> > any help will be helpful,
> >
> > thakns for you time
>
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> On 12/7/2005 1:37:30 PM Gerard Seibert Replied:
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> To keep track of your local time, Google would either have to place a
> cookie on your computer, or maintain a data base with your time zone
> included in it. To my knowledge, Google is not employing either of those
> technologies rendering the F5 key to inset the users local time
> impossible.

Google places cookies on your computer. Just look in your cookies
directory. I don't know if place time information in it, but they can
always get your timezone by your ip. There exist databases that match
ips (based on the isp they belong to) to timezones.

> Actually, there are technologies to locate the user,
> (sometimes) and obtain the time zone from that info, but it is very
> intensive and not worth the time and expense that Google would probably
> have to invest to deploy it.

It's as easy as querying a database. I'm doing something similar using
free tools, like http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info .

It's not a matter of how to do it, as Google has shown they can be
pretty creative and effective. It's a matter of whether it's useful.
Do people add their local time in emails they compose? Why? The
receiver can always see what time the email was sent, and received.
Besides, the sender can always lie about their local time.

>
> There might be some sort of freeware program that could accomplish what
> you want though. You might try searching for one. You could also just
> wear a watch.
>
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> Gerard Seibert

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