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From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
Subject: Re: problems with date
Message-ID: <C14LJB.62M@sneaky.lonestar.org>
Organization: Gordon Burditt
References: <1iu2jsINN518@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <1993Jan14.064517.7201@st.simbirsk.su> <1993Jan18.131519.22234@rdg.dec.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 00:04:15 GMT
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>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.

In real life, there is a time zone -13 (hours *WEST* of GMT, or 13 hours
east of GMT) caused by politically-inspired jogs in the international 
date line.  It even has some land in it.  It is 23 hours different
from the adjacent +10 zone.  


					Gordon L. Burditt
					sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon