How can I be receiving messages dated nearly 2 months from today? Also, How can I tell if a message

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Jeff Wiseman said: How can I have received this message when today is only 18 July 2020?



Clue. The date of the message in my messages file shows it as 9 July 2020.

Also,

Is that message in the messages pull down from JeffLuke to me, or from me to JeffLuke? There is no way to discern this without opening the message.

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Heidi Kuosmanen said: To me the date is normal: day/month/year.

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Tom Huber said: That is a strange (and very ambiguous) format. I just checked my list and the month is consistently spelled out. I wonder if there is a setting somewhere that produces the ambiguous date?

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Tom Huber said: Spelled out, meaning the three letter abbreviation for the month.

The format is as Heidi reported. dd Mmm, or dd Mmm yyyy. The year is not present for the current year (2020).

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Jeff Wiseman said: Heh, yea. I lived in Canada for 26 years. I guess I should have shown the full list so that the inconsistency was obvious:



Something is (or was) obviously broken :-)

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Jeff Wiseman said: As you can see in my response to Heidi, the real issue is that it is a totally inconsistent (and ambiguous) format. One of the possible clues here (which is not obvious because you cannot tell from the above images whether it was a message sent or received) is that that message was the first response that *I* sent out, and it was on the following day:



Something is (or was) definitely broken.