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Welcome to the Future, Part II

So previously, I’ve reported on Google’s bug that shows just-sent email as being sent “-1 minutes ago.” The other day I sent an email and it appears they’ve cleaned up their act a bit:

Old version:

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New version:

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Note that I don’t have the “undo send” feature enabled.  I’d love to hear an explanation for this change. It would be easy enough to just round the time to “0 minutes ago,” but instead they actually put forth a small amount of effort to make it perfectly clear that you’re sending the email in the future.

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2 Responses to “Welcome to the Future, Part II”

  1. Erik Says:
    April 25th, 2009 at 10:42 am

    It might be possible that in some scenarios, the email takes 1 minute (max) to get out the door if they are heavily queued up with pending to-be-sent emails. Just a guess.

  2. Matt Meshulam Says:
    April 25th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Yeah, you’re probably right, but given that there’s a zillion places for an email to get delayed after it’s sent, I don’t think anybody really cares about the queue time on Google’s SMTP servers.

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