Does anyone know what GMT means on received emails and how to decipher it from our time?

Question

I am supposing GMT means Greenwich Mean Time(sp?). I like to find out what time the email I get was sent and don't know the time difference. Do you?

It really frustrates me!

Several of you were right. Best answer is how I figured it out. Thank you!

Answer 1

OK, it depends on where you are at in the world.
If you are in New York city, subtract 5 hours from the GMT time to get local time. Chicago 6, Denver 7, Los Angeles 8; you get the picture. Of course, that changes with Daylight Savings time.

To know for sure, check your computer's time/date settings. For Windows PCs, double click the time in the lower-right corner. It'll bring up a box that'll have a "Time Zone" tab. If you go there, you should see the something like "GMT -xx:00", where the xx is a number of hours. Subtract that number (or add it, if the number is +xx:00), and that's the sent time.

Answer 2

I'm surprised no on mentioned that if you check the full headers on your email - get help if you don't know how to check them, it varies with different email programs - you'll see something like this "Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:11:28 -0700 (PDT)" that indicates how far from GMT the msg was sent. The PDT stands for Pacific Daylight Time, which is GMT minus 7 hours - PST would be GMT minus 8 hours.

You can't trust that you are PDT - you may be Eastern or somewhere else, but if you know yours you can convert using the website referenced in above answers to figure out when it was sent in your time zone. You may need a calculator if you can't do it in your head and you aren't using the "cheat" website.

Answer 3

GMT means Greenwich Mean Time. Central Standard time is GMT -06:00. Eastern Standard time is GMT -05:00. You are subtracting an hour off of the GMT every time zone you go in the western direction. You are adding an hour every time you go a time zone towards the east of Greenwish Mean Time. (Greenwich is over in europe). We use GMT as the average time for the planet and all time zones work off of the GMT.

Answer 4

you're right GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, or the time in Greenwich, England, just outside London...........where are you? East Coast US is GMT minus 4 hours....if you know your longitude, divide by 15 to get the hours difference on GMT, cause a time zone is 15 degrees wide

Answer 5

GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, the standard from which all other time is measured. US Eastern Time is 5 hours behind that, so just subtract 5 hours (adjust for Central, Mountain, Pacific or where ever).

Answer 6

MAYBE, I CAN GET YOU STARED,or confused. only you will know.
G reewich
M ean
T ime
-are the gmt exuse any misspells !
im supposed to be on the freeway..,
its a longitudal point ,a round race tracks "START" line as a metaphor if you will.
Tourists may "see" a location in , Greenwich, ... a look-see-touch physical manifestation of the number 00" imaginary longitudal line", representing the actual turningpoint of the 24 hour cycle we call today, and tommorow .
A t the heart of a courtyard ,of pavers are a line of special pavers running in a north -south
line through the courtyard yard-ending at -say a mall walks line of sight- before turnings distance.
the line is only physically embedded -on earth-in pavingstones -for tourists -post card sales etc -at the greenwich site but that paved line continues invisable in both north and south imaginary lines ,over the horizens to two points on earth .those two points are the true north pole and the south pole .

All this came to be real way way back ,in the long, long, long ago -Times.
(early shipping days).(sick of fued'n days) it became necesary that "today" should end somewhere..at-aprox'ly-)

(11:59:59seconds PM on one side of a north south line, and the "concept" of "Tommorow"
whose location (known only by roosters crowing) and previously ambiguouse ,and at the core of many spats ,fueds,quarrells -& your flat -out -major wars, should be established-

Hopefully -a more pleasant lifestyle,
basically the ability to have a "lifestyle"
would be one positive consequence,
(setting a digital watch-concert dates ,etc
were not yet on the radar,of those wearry, yet wise villagers )
ones agreed apon, and set in stone,granite I would hazord to say.
This longitudal line "officially"signaled the begining (at midnight )- of a new day ,and the last second of yesterday, (you can actually stand in one spot & have a foot in the past(aka tuesday) and a foot ,or whatever body part(s) can strech to the other side -in the FUTURE ! aka (wednessday) -Im not researching this -on the web -its just what i recall- the starting /ending line really could be any longitudal r pole to pole line to give our 24 hour day a beginning point and an ending point .
A world standard to calibrate all the things one world must callibrate- then ,and now ,
gps, clocks, etc, Roosters are a good back-up should a comet crash into earth and crack it into two halves.
one never knows -does one?
im outa here! peace!
p.s.
you can here gmt announced on National Public Radio eighty -i forget exactly. on the FM dial ,A very proper english sounding pre-recorded-I hope-gent announces the new hours commencement followed by a "set your watch NOW"stacatto beeep.! just before there hourly news ...i seem to recall.
good luck -the search is the treasure ---yada yada yada!

Answer 7

Yes, it does mean Greenwich Mean Time, and the time difference depends upon where you live. Usually, your local phone book will have an insert that tells you what time it is in various places in the world, so that will tell you how many hours before or afer GMT you are.

Answer 8

It means Greenwich Mean Time, which is named after Greenwich England. It is four hours later than it is on the east coast of the U.S. so if your in the eastern U.S. subtract four from it to decipher it. For Central subtract five, Mountain six, Pacific seven, etc.

Answer 9

It depends on where you are. East coast time is 5 hours behind GMT; Central is 6, Mountain 7 and pacific 8hrs.

Greenwich Mean Time is London time.

Answer 10

GMT = Greenwich Mean Time

Easiest way to figure out is just use the tools on http://www.timeanddate.com