Patent ID: 8774769

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by one of a mobile switching center (MSC) or a serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) support node (SGSN), a sending mobile device message from a message center, the one of the MSC or SGSN managing a recipient mobile device of the message, the one of the MSC or SGSN being in a first time zone that is different from a second time zone occupied by a recipient mobile device; extracting, by the one of the MSC or SGSN, a time value and a time zone designation from a time stamp of the message; comparing, by the one of the MSC or SGSN, a time zone indicated by the time zone designation to the second time zone occupied by the recipient mobile device; updating, by the one of the MSC or SGSN, the time stamp of the message to correlate with the second time zone occupied by the recipient mobile device, the updating including adjusting the time value based on a time difference between the time zone and the second time zone and modifying the time zone designation to an additional time zone designation for the second time zone; and transferring, by the one of the MSC or SGSN, the message with the time stamp to the recipient mobile device.