On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:16:50 -0800 (PST)
Darrell Anderson wrote:

> When opening a message in KMail, there is a gray rectangle area above
> the message containing the basic To/From/Subject information.
> 
> In Trinity there is a blue box at the right side of the gray area. The
> blue box uses a gradient background and contains the current time of the
> person who sent the message.
> 
> There is a related configuration option in Appearance, Message Window,
> named "Show current sender time."
> 
> How is the current sender's time being determined? Is this a local
> calculation or is KMail fetching data from somewhere online before
> calculating and displaying the time?

I suspect the date/time you are seeing is actually the time the mail was
sent by the originator rather than his/her current time.

Take a look at the headers for these mails and see how the content of the
box compares with the 'Date:' header.

John NZ