Google introduced a concept that is just brilliant..custom time - the ability to predate your email.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
Advantage:
- Get away with forgetting birthdays
- Submit stuff late (the document that your boss wanted before quarter end but was delayed in the email type stuff)
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
Advantage:
- Get away with forgetting birthdays
- Submit stuff late (the document that your boss wanted before quarter end but was delayed in the email type stuff)
& it is perfect for some Jobs ;-)....predate the (a for xxxxx) fruit company stocks that you received as part of your executive comp / bonus etc.
How does this work?
Let's say you wanted to send out a prank email to your boss...
How does this work?
Let's say you wanted to send out a prank email to your boss...
Now today is 4/1/2008, but with custom time you can predate it to 3/31/2008 & send it now.
Then you call your boss & start discussing it as if he/she must have already received it & read thru....
Your boss is gonna say...I did not get that presentation from you..
You are like..but I sent it yesterday..
He's like..when..ohh..I see it now, I swear it was not there yesterday..
You are like "uh..hunhh!!" (American way of saying slacker / duh!! at work).
See...how you can embarrass folks.
These guys at Google are brilliant I tell ya what...What innovation, creative thinking, out of the box, blue sky strategy. MSFT can never think this way..
If only I can be a product manager for this custom time stuff. I mean what is in a date / time (right!!)..
I wish someone from Google can read how highly we think of them.
Oh well...I should quit fooling around & make something of this day!
Then you call your boss & start discussing it as if he/she must have already received it & read thru....
Your boss is gonna say...I did not get that presentation from you..
You are like..but I sent it yesterday..
He's like..when..ohh..I see it now, I swear it was not there yesterday..
You are like "uh..hunhh!!" (American way of saying slacker / duh!! at work).
See...how you can embarrass folks.
These guys at Google are brilliant I tell ya what...What innovation, creative thinking, out of the box, blue sky strategy. MSFT can never think this way..
If only I can be a product manager for this custom time stuff. I mean what is in a date / time (right!!)..
I wish someone from Google can read how highly we think of them.
Oh well...I should quit fooling around & make something of this day!
Thanks!!
2 comments:
While Google's custom time is a joke, you can actually change the system time of your computer, which will change the time in your Outlook. All the emails you send from Outlook with the wrong time will actually be sent at the time sent on your computer. The received time, of course, will be correct on the receiver's end.
Would'nt Exchange Server timestamp it differently. I bet unless there is something that changes on the server side, this probably is not a very robust "Custom Time" idea.
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