why does email from my sister (gmail) show recieved about 20 minutes in the future? [View all]

Last edited Fri Aug 20, 2021, 02:49 PM - Edit history (1)

I use Thunderbird, and as far as I can tell all other email I get comes "on time" but hers is at least 20 minutes "fast"

example: I can be talking to her at 10:30 and she sends something while we are on the phone and if I hit reply or forward the header email will say "On 8/20/2021 10:50 AM, Kali's sister wrote:" (in the future!)

Is it her computer? her gmail? my computer? she says her computer shows the right time and date but gmail is screwy anyway, so I think that is where the problem is.

I found a few contradictory things on the google - either computer or gmail so not sure what to mess with first and her eyes glaze over pretty quickly with this stuff so if there is a simple fix that would be best. LOL


EDIT and UDATE: she seems to have fixed it by changing computer clock to AUTO and time settings in Gmail. the other minutes disparity may be related to how/when Thunderbird downloads my email? I don't know, that seems to have stopped too.