Gmail: Custom Time!

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Apr 1, 2008 1:14 AM EDT

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Google unveils their latest addition to gmail - Custom Time! Check it out, it lets you play with the timestamp on your outgoing messages.

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{"commentId":1642496,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

Mykola Bilokonsky

Oh those guys at google, always coming up with new ways to save time.

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6 votes

#1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 1:16 AM EDT

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Robbie Lawrence

Would save the procrastinators a lot of bother

No boss, I sent it 7 hours ago.

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6 votes

#2 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 1:25 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642519,"authorDomain":"Brad-Leclerc"}

Brad Leclerc

Google breaks spacetime....what will they think of next?

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3 votes

#3 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 1:27 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642600,"authorDomain":"paintballguns"}

Paintball Guns

As I'm sure you know, this is a hoax. See

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#4 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:11 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642614,"authorDomain":"bluemutiny"}

Robbie Lawrence

No it's not.

Check your inbox.

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3 votes

#4.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:19 AM EDT

{"commentId":1644012,"authorDomain":"hamid"}

hamid.nyc

I seeded this article six months ago, check the time stamp on my seed...

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2 votes

#4.2 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 12:49 PM EDT

{"commentId":1644066,"authorDomain":"hamid"}

hamid.nyc

Oh, and speaking of time: Google Launches Future Search

Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now.

We can use this technique to predict almost anything on the web – tomorrow's share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus, using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before they're written!

To rank these future pages in order of relevance, gDay™ uses a statistical extrapolation of a page's future PageRank, called SageRank.

Try it out yourself

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1 vote

#4.3 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 1:02 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642615,"authorDomain":"alter-bridge-andrew"}

Andrew-261194

I can't get it to work, and it seems like total baloney. Why only ten? Because anymore then 10 would cause us to lose perception of time? what? and it's April 1st. It's gotta be an April fools day joke. :(

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1 vote

#5 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:20 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642621,"authorDomain":"bluemutiny"}

Robbie Lawrence

It's not, trust me.

Actually it got me out of quite a tight spot today. I was supposed to send a testimonial into a hotel three weeks ago but it never left my drafts. So I just clicked twice, typed in a nice little date and huzzah, free monies.

Then again, my g-mail account is set to an unusual language so you may want to try that first.

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6 votes

#5.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:25 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642624,"authorDomain":"debrawelch697"}

Debraw

Ahhhh Hellooooo McFly!!!!! Custom Time Gmail????Lol April Fool's!!!!!

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2 votes

#6 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:27 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642662,"authorDomain":"jefejef"}

Jeff-261206

Pretty funny April Fool's joke. Read the people's quotes on the main page.

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#7 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 3:00 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642668,"authorDomain":"anshuman1"}

anshuman1

Are you really getting the option, seems like a April Fool joke by google and may be you are one :)

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#8 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 3:07 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642694,"authorDomain":"aglaia46"}

google fan

oh i love google they are always so fun :)

happy april fool's!

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#9 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 3:38 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642767,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}

Dennis P. McCann

Google also released an amazing new technology to it's Australian users. It lets you search tomorrow's web today!

gDay™ with MATE™

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3 votes

#10 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 4:52 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642829,"authorDomain":"Malcolm"}

Mal

I'll admit it, they soooooooooo got me with that one. I have quite a few "test" emails in my sent folder....sigh.

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#11 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:09 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642874,"authorDomain":"bluemutiny"}

Robbie Lawrence

It's really a shame how many people ruin April fools jokes.

This clearly isn't one though. Got proof? I don't think so!

However Dennis' clearly is.

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2 votes

#12 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:49 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642964,"authorDomain":"cobbs"}

steveoutdoorrec

The funny thing is this is almost true. If you reset the time on your computer it will time stamp your emails with the "false" time. This won't work on a webmail system but if you use Outlook it will because a email program that resides on your pc uses your time as the sent time. Haven't tried other email programs but they are most likely the same.

I used this to trick my sister into believing that I'd sent her an email the week before and she just hadn't gotten it, after she tried to guilt trip me about not answering her. She was so pissed at her ISP that emails took so long until I sent her one from the future.

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3 votes

#13 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 7:35 AM EDT

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Andy Min

Finally!

:-P

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2 votes

#14 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 9:03 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643289,"authorDomain":"forrester-frank"}

segagman

ok so did you see the link on grandfather pardox linked to the wiki entry on it
ww(CAN U C THE LINK NOW) w .wikipedia .org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox
well go to the wiki's histroy I am iphonelinux and itz a wiki war messing with the admins
everone should do it just pop *[[g00gle time]] here and there so the admins got to read it all over an over
bet they got yahooMail :-)

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1 vote

#15 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 9:51 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643453,"authorDomain":"ayanared"}

AyanaRED

Yeah, I don't even get the option.

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#16 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 10:30 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643506,"authorDomain":"craig19"}

Craig19

The Clintons will love this.

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1 vote

#17 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 10:43 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643611,"authorDomain":"Anya2008"}

Anya2008

I believe its just an April Fool's prank like last year when you could order every e-mail to be delivered in paper copies! LOL.

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1 vote

#18 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 11:03 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643650,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

Mykola Bilokonsky

Wow, my second link love in two days - ZDNet has linked this thread! :)

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2 votes

#19 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 11:12 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643659,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}

Andy Min

And I got so excited when they mentioned "Andrew". Sigh.

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3 votes

#19.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 11:15 AM EDT

{"commentId":1645208,"authorDomain":"bluemutiny"}

Robbie Lawrence

I got so excited when they mentioned "Robbie Lawrence"

No it's not.
Check your inbox. — Robbie Lawrence

Sigh. ;)

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2 votes

#19.2 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:15 PM EDT

{"commentId":1643762,"authorDomain":"bearcracks"}

bearcracks

"We can use this technique to predict almost anything on the web – tomorrow's share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus, using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before they're written!"

See! they even explain how it works! How could it be a joke?

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2 votes

#20 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 11:39 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643880,"authorDomain":"maren-janssen"}

neram

APRIL FOOL'S!!!

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#21 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 12:09 PM EDT

{"commentId":1643968,"authorDomain":"tomduban"}

Tommy D

I finally have found a practical use for my flux capacitor. I have been unable to acquire batteries to enable it to function, now, thanks to the brilliant staff of developers at Google, I can schedule many more commitments in my daytimer and take all the time I need to honor them! My wife will never be able to find me but she will always be informed of the things I'm not doing. Thank You so much.

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#22 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 12:35 PM EDT

{"commentId":1643983,"authorDomain":"Austinite1"}

Austinite1

Google has had some classic April Fools Jokes...

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#23 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 12:40 PM EDT

{"commentId":1644814,"authorDomain":"blakeforeman"}

nothingssomething

people......the gmail thing Is a hoax, it's their best one yet, the theory abotu 4 to 5 years ago would be ok but now if your useing outlook express or outlook it sorts emails localy based on when it recieved the mail timestamping is for the propertys , for us to be defenate it avrages the times out. if it wasn't for this then answer could be yes it is possable but outlook uses it's own timestamping system NOW (or Currently), it usto be based off of server timestamps but currently most of the timestamps are made by the client (outlook) with some alythogram the only True way to allow post dateing in reality is for the server to broadcast withinn the message a lag time or error time marker in witch case would by default be displayed, unless you have my knowledge and ACTUALLY can send postdeted tmestamps don'y you wish you were a specialist like me.?? i would auction off this infor for users who are like me and lazy, unreliable, dishonist but let's face it , your lazy might not pay me dishonest and might scam me and unreliable and might just not feel like payng.....HAHAHAHAHa

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1 vote

#24 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 4:19 PM EDT

{"commentId":1645462,"authorDomain":"cobbs"}

steveoutdoorrec

people......the gmail thing Is a hoax,

Gee, you think?

True way to allow post dateing in reality is for the server to broadcast withinn the message a lag time or error time marker in witch case would by default be displayed, unless you have my knowledge and ACTUALLY can send postdeted tmestamps don'y you wish you were a specialist like me.??

I'm sort of glad that I'm not a specialist like you because I do know that it is possible for two things to happen.

1.) You can change the clock on your computer and Outlook will time-stamp it when sent. Thus making it appear that you sent it on a different day and time. The time-stamp is not put on at the receiving computer but by the sender's system. I'd be happy to prove that as I have done it a few times as jokes on family members.

2.) The second thing is that I'm able to use the little button at the bottom of the comment box to check the spelling of my comment. Thus avoiding spelling words like: postdated as "postedeted."

Oh, and just an idea, but you might want to use a few periods to break your run-on sentence into individual thoughts. Commas just don't make a good substitute.

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#24.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 7:31 PM EDT

{"commentId":1645493,"authorDomain":"leadfoot100"}

leadfoot100

Haha, this is a good one. i have to say i checked my compose mail probably 5 times before i stopped believing it was true.

does anybody remember the google ISP through the sewage system. I think it was something like TiSP (toilet internet service provider) Actually I just found it. Go to google and search for TiSP
www.google.com /tisp (remove the space)
THIS is something funny to read up on, and i was half tempted to buy it at the time just for the hell of it.

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#25 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 7:41 PM EDT

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