On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:21 PM, John Meyer <john.l.me...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've noticed that most of the date time strings in the XML responses are > formatted like this "Thu May 21 03:15:28 +0000 2009" What exactly is > that +####? It is the offset, from GMT, of the time zone being stamped. For example, from your email's headers, there's this time stamp in a Received header: Thu, 21 May 2009 14:21:53 -0700 (PDT) That says that it was stamped in a time zone that is 7 hours behind GMT. The "PDT" specifies which of those time zones it is. The date header on your email was six hours behind GMT (-0600). And if you are wondering why it is four digits, for hours and minutes, it's because there are time zones whose offset is a number or hours plus 30 minutes. Nick
