Darrin Hixenbaugh: they are from the future.
Dee Depung: Most e-mail is sent by Unix based 32bit computers that keep track of 'time' as a single value. That value represents the number of seconds since midnight, Jan 1, 1970 (referred to as 'the epoch'). The number is 'unsigned' so there are a maximum of 4billion some odd seconds. The largest value that can be represented is sometime in March of 2036.In the computer the value is just 32bits...the unsigned nature of what is stored in those 32 bits is not enforced by the system. Some applications, if no date is known, end up putting '-1' into that field. The value -1 is represented by setting all 32 bits to '1'...when that value is later treated as an unsigned number, the date in 2036 appears.Another interesting date that shows up is Dec 31 1969. Recall that I said the 'beginning of time' was Jan 1, 1970 at midnight. To be more exact it was 0000 GMT Jan 1, 1970, which in the EST zone was 7 pm...so if you ever see a da! te like 19:00 31 Dec 1969 its just the value '0' being converted to EST.General belief is that well before 2036, 32 bit machines will be obsolete...hopefully the folks making the operating systems for the ones that are left will have shifted to using two 32 bit values to represent time by then....Show more
Jesse Japak: Any emails that state that they are from a year that hasn't already happened could be alot of things. 1: Hacker2: Spy (Hacker and Spy 2 different things)3: Virus4: Spam5: ScamOr, your email service is incorrectly stating what date you received the email. Hope This Helps...Show more
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