Re: [Evolution] Threading anomaly?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:23 -0600, Bart wrote:
> Evolution 3.10.2 - openSUSE 13.1 - KDE 4.11.5
>
> I never noticed this before:
>
> Today, I received a message from the list posted by Jimmy Montague
> subject Evolution is dying.  The date and time say 27, May at 14:47
> -0500 (1:47 my time)
>
> Adam Williams posted a reply at 16:06 -0400  (2:06 my time)
>
> Patrick O'Callaghan posted a reply at 14:47 -0500 (2:45 my time)
>
> When I look at these messages in the message list window, with threading
> turned on, and sorted by date, the reply from Patrick O'Callaghan is
> shown above or before the reply from Adam Williams.
>
> Looking at some other threads, they seem to be "correct".  It seems that
> sorting by date to evolution is not quite sorted by date to me.  What am
> I missing?

Users' machines can have variant ideas about the date. Personally I
sort on Received Date, which tends to be more consistent (not guaranteed
of course). Otherwise you can sometimes see messages from the future :-)

poc