Editor,
I’m sending you a letter in regards to the timestamp on UNM Webmail.
Apparently the timestamp to every e-mail sent after Nov. 7 reports one hour over the time it was sent. One may verify by simply e-mailing themselves or by having a friend e-mail them. Conversely, the timestamp seems correct when Gmail receives e-mails from Webmail.
Of course, this issue is small, and essentially everyone knows about it by now. However, it would benefit the students to make this issue explicit to their professors in order to remedy any possible “past due” mistakes,
especially for those who are submitting a final paper or report via Webmail.
I reiterate this is a small problem. However, there’s no need to give a professor an excuse to give students a failing grade based solely on what Webmail says. However, I doubt professors are that evil or that reliant on
Webmail.
Fortunately, the good people at IT are on the case and will hopefully remedy this problem shortly.
For your amusement, you may verify by e-mailing yourself, if you haven’t already. If nothing seems to be problematic, then I congratulate the IT people for a job well done.
UNM
