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Article #49Re: International time zones
From: Bob Devine
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1989 01:45
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1989 01:45
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In article <26807@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) writes: > Negative zone numbers are east of 0 degrees latitude (the Prime > Meridian); positive numbers are west (note: this is opposite the > Unix convention). > > The sign convention, in fact, goes the other way. > If you used ARPA RFC822 as your source, you should be aware that RFC822 > got the signs wrong in its definition of the one-letter zone names. You are right. I had first entered it correctly, checked some of the reference material and then reversed it! Naturally one of the references was RFC822. The other was Doris Doane's "Time Changes in The USA". My parenthetical comment about "unix is opposite" is correct and should have pointed out to me my error. Checking a reference by NIST (was NBS) shows the east=positive and west=negative rule. Arrgh! Bob Devine (never believe two random references....)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!shodha.dec.com!devine From: devine@shodha.dec.com (Bob Devine) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: International time zones Message-ID: <406@shodha.dec.com> Date: 1 Sep 89 01:45:23 GMT References: <392@shodha.dec.com> <26807@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO. Lines: 16