what does est time stand for
Converting CEST to EST. This time zone converter lets you visually and very quickly convert CEST to EST and vice-versa. Simply mouse over the colored hour-tiles and glance at the hours selected by the column... and done! CEST stands for Central European Summer Time. EST is known as Eastern Standard Time. EST is 6 hours behind CEST. So, when it is it will be.
An email sent from someone in the Eastern Standard Time (EST) time zone will have the time zone listed as -0500 in the headers of the email. (However, -0500 does not have to be in Eastern Standard Time, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).