Re: 2822upd-04 "local" time and zone offsets
Tony Finch <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Bruce Lilly wrote: > > The issues arise from the difficulty in converting *correctly* to an > unambiguous time reference (i.e. UTC) which in turn is partially due to > an unfortunate choice in the sign of the offset, (resulting in > erroneously adding the offset to local time to get UTC when it should be > subtracted). RFC 2822 and RFC 3339 and ISO 8601 use the same sign. AFAIK only the old Unix TZ specifications use the wrong sign which I believe was for the convenience of users in the same hemisphere as the developers. Apart from this I'll just agree with Pete and Ned. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ SHANNON: SOUTHWEST VEERING NORTHWEST 5 TO 7. ROUGH OR VERY ROUGH. RAIN THEN SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.