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Connectivity logs and Message Tracking logs in Microsoft Exchange 2010 are 5 hours off

Yesterday I noticed that some email was received in Outlook with a Sent time of 5:54 am and not received until 12:54 pm, which is 7 hours. Today I am not seeing this difference, but when I went to the Connectivity and Message Tracking logs, it shows that the times are 5 hours later than the actual time. For example, I sent an email from yahoo to my Exchange mail account at 9:46 am today. Outlook shows it is sent and received at 9:46 am, but the Connectivity log and the Message Tracking log shows a time of 14:46, which is 5 hours off. How does this happen? Is there a way to set Exchange log times? Or is there some kind of an "Exchange clock"?

rsimsee

All Exchange logs are written using UTC / GMT timezone, I don't think you can change it.

susanmerc

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Would the UTC/GMT timezone account for 5 hours difference between the log and the real time? And this 5 hours is in the future.

rsimsee

Yup. Assuming you are GMT-6 right now... Are you in the Central US Time Zone?

I'm in EST and it's 4:11 right now and this is the latest entry in my Exchange smtp log:

2012-09-11T20:11:45

So it's 16:11 here and it says it's 20:11 which is 4 hours difference. I'm in GMT-5, but it's Daylight Savings Time right now so EST is actually GMT-4 right now.

Since your 5 hours behind, you should be in GMT-6, or the Central Time Zone if you are in the US, or GMT -5 if you are in a country that doesn't do Daylight Savings...

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susanmerc

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SO, you are saying that this is normal? I find it strange that when I look in a log that the times aren't reflected to current. But thank you for the explanation about GMT and time zones. Thanks for the attention and quick answer!

susanmerc

ASKER

Oh, I didn't confirm - I AM in CST, actually CDT, so this makes sense

rsimsee

Yeah, I don't like it either, it's a pain in behind when you are trying to track something down and you have to figure out what time it is in the log, but c-est la vie..