whats this mean date:Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:22:32 -0500

[sam]

i got this header in my emails
''date:Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:22:32 -0500''

im in massachusetts and the email was sent from arizona

im guessing the 17:22:32 is 5:22:32 pm

am i right?

what does the -0500 mean? and how do i fiqure it out when
i dont know where the email was from?
date:Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:22:32 -0500

thanks

 

[purplehaz]

see below..........

i got this header in my emails
''date:Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:22:32 -0500''

im in massachusetts and the email was sent from arizona

im guessing the 17:22:32 is 5:22:32 pm

am i right?
Yes.


what does the -0500 mean?

It's the time zone setting. GMT (Greenwich mean time) -5 hours, which is
eastern standard time.

and how do i fiqure it out when
i dont know where the email was from?

What is it that your trying to figure out?

 

[Mike Brearley]

-0500 is 5 hours less than Greenwich Mean Time. It can be Eastern Standard
Time (US & Canada), Indiana (East) or Bogota, Lima, Quito.

The person that sent the e-mail could have their time zone configured wrong.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Tony Talmage]

Sometimes, in my experience, the time zone is based on the mail server's
location instead of the user's; I send myself messages directly from the
mailserver sometimes, and the messages I receive are GMT +0, which is quite
wrong.

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(888) 354-6600

 

[Ron Sommer]

see below..........



It's the time zone setting. GMT (Greenwich mean time) -5 hours, which is
eastern standard time.

It is the time zone setting of the sending computer. It may not be set
correctly.

 

[sam]

i still dont understand -0500. you said eastern standard
time, shouldnt arizona be pacific standard -0300 from wher
i am

is there a chart about the (GMT)

i want to figure out what it means and what if i dont know
where the email comes from , then the only way to figure
out it by that number. suppose it say -0700?

what and how many - numbers are there?

thanks

 

[Mike Brearley]

Then the mail servers time zone is set wrong and it needs to be corrected.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Mike Brearley]

For the US, there's -0500 for Eastern Time, -0600 Central Time, -0700
Mountain Time and -0800 Pacific Time.

Do a google search for Time Zones, I'm sure you'll find something.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[purplehaz]

No pacific time would be -0800, the sender may have their time zone settings
wrong or the email server time is off.
It repesents how many hours you go back from the gmt time line(a line
created by man that represents the starting point for time zones = 0000). If
it says -0900 and you dont know what time zone that is just look it up in
the xp clock, time zone tab.

 

[Larc]

| i still dont understand -0500. you said eastern standard
| time, shouldnt arizona be pacific standard -0300 from wher
| i am
|
| is there a chart about the (GMT)
|
| i want to figure out what it means and what if i dont know
| where the email comes from , then the only way to figure
| out it by that number. suppose it say -0700?
|
| what and how many - numbers are there?

All time zones are measured from Greenwich, England, which is about halfway
around the world from the International Date Line. Time zones to the east of
Greenwich are indicated in + hours and minutes and time zones to the west are in
- hours and minutes (there actually are some locations that are 30 minutes off
standard time, Rangoon for one). Fiji, for instance, would show as +1200 while
Hawaii would be -1000 (literally +12:00 and -10:00, but email doesn't show the
":").

You can see a good listing of these time differences by double clicking on the
time on your desktop and opening the Time Zone tab. Clicking on the little down
pointer beside the time zone that's showing for your location opens the list.
Just make sure not to change your location unless it's wrong and you want to
correct it.

Larc



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[Tim Slattery]

i still dont understand -0500. you said eastern standard
time, shouldnt arizona be pacific standard -0300 from wher
i am

The -0500 is simply the adjustment that must be made to a time given
as GMT to get the local time in your time zone. You subtract five
hours from GMT to get Eastern Standard Time. -0600 would be either
Central Standard or Mountain Daylight, -0700 is Mountain Standard
(which is what Arizona uses all year around, except for the Navajo
Reservation in the Northeast Corner) or Pacific Daylight, -0800 is
Pacific Standard time.

So if it's 11:00pm GMT, subtract 5 hours to find out that it's 6:00pm
EST.

 

[Ken Blake]

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i still dont understand -0500. you said eastern standard
time, shouldnt arizona be pacific standard -0300 from wher
i am

Arizona is Mountain Standard time, -0700.