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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: problems with date
Message-ID: <1993Jan19.222342.836@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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In article <1993Jan18.131519.22234@rdg.dec.com> franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni) writes:
>In article <1993Jan14.203042.12234@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A
>Wizard of Earth |> Being "east" of GMT doesn't mean you should use a negative
>number, I believe.
>|> Try "+23" and "+21" for your respective problems.
>As far as I know BSD do uses positives and negatives numbers for timezones,
>since the timezone
>in the config file is expressed as hours west of GMT, -1 is, e.g., the value for
>central europe.
>In real life, time zone is expressed with the range -12:+12 (and not 0:23) as
>well ; just the sign
>changes, being GMT+1 east from GMT.
Oh. Then it's a bug. 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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