I’ve had similar issues. Your local timestamp is based on your local time. As is the other’s person, but the timestamp that gets stamped on their message is AOL’s system time.

B (10:26:23 AM): you can ignore this.. Just need to test to see if AIM uses the system clock for timestamps
B (10:26:29 PM): test
B (10:26:33 AM): test
B (10:26:34 AM): yep
C (10:22:12 AM): ha
B (10:26:46 AM): yeah, it uses the system clock
C (10:22:26 AM): ha
C (10:22:33 AM): why
B (10:26:56 AM): my replies show up as 4 minutes after yours
B (10:27:23 AM): but I think it only shows on your side
B (10:27:31 AM): all of your times show correct to me
B (10:27:44 AM): it’s just your local time that gets fuggard up
C (10:23:19 AM): 49
C (10:23:21 AM): 52
C (10:23:29 AM): grr
B (10:27:57 AM): they show up as 10:23:xx to me.