A very interesting trivia. A couple of days back I had this problem with my Gmail. I received mails which said the time stamp was 2 , all the mails that I received on that day. So I started imagining that may be google has some kind of bug. You can check all the information in your e-mail through the option of mail details.
So I remembered this interesting thing I learnt in class, you receive any data from the internet through a special port number assigned to that application from your operating system. Now say your private IP address is 192.168.1.34:4445 is the port number for the application running on your system. May be you are accessing google through the 66.102.7.78:80(HTTP webserver)..Check out netstat -a -n in your command prompt.
Now this might not be relevant to me trying to understand google's operation in the time set, but it just a flashed a idea in my mind... Now it got me thinking how is date getting set?
Not to derail from the point, which is that the information is extracted by google from your system time settings. Wow! and guess what my system time setting was 2 days behind...
Neat.. So there goes my little experience..:)
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