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What is the “-0500” in the date field of a message header?

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What is the “-0500” in the date field of a message header?

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It refers to the time zone you are in. If you see -0500, then you are in the Eastern Standard Time zone (CDT in the summer), which is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.

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