Sam Steingold <···@goems.com> wrote:
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| time zone ... a number of hours offset from Greenwich Mean Time.
| Time zone values increase with motion to the west, so Massachusetts,
| U.S.A. is in time zone 5, California, U.S.A. is time zone 8...
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Why did they do that? Seems backwards from other common notions
of timezones. E.g., RFC 822 mail header date format treats "PST"
(California non-daylight-savings time) and "-0800" the same,
and "PDT" == "-0700", etc.
-Rob
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* ····@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
| Why did they do that? Seems backwards from other common notions
| of timezones. E.g., RFC 822 mail header date format treats "PST"
| (California non-daylight-savings time) and "-0800" the same,
| and "PDT" == "-0700", etc.
also in the great� Unix tradition, PST is 8 and PDT is 7.
#:Erik
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