[dmmiller2k]

In Outlook 2007 (on WinXP Pro SP3), I have defined a number of rules to presort incoming email into various folders. Not all of the rules work for reasons I cannot determine (that's a question for another time), but most do. Oddly, any messages automatically moved to one particular folder always have a received time stamp of five hours earlier.

That is, a message that arrives at 9am is timestamped 4am.

Now my local timezone is EST, so this is the opposite of what would happen were the machine running with a timezone of, say, GMT, where timestamps would be 5 hours AHEAD (i.e., messages arriving at 9am would be timestamped 2pm).

As a software developer for a company with international locations, I occasionally must reset the timezone and time on my machine in order to test software, and several times I have had to set my machine to JST (Japan Standard Time, or GMT+9) but I have long since set it back again.

To anticipate several questions, both the folder and the rule were defined before any of the periods during which I was running with an altered time/timezone (i.e., none were created during one of those periods), neither did I change (nor save) any rules during those periods.

Anyone have any idea what is happening? How may I reset the timestamps for this rule/folder?