Re: What time is it? [Was: Data compression standard]

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From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 23:13

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In article <11329@castle.ed.ac.uk>, yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly) writes:
|> If I received a message with a time stamp of
|>           1991-06-25 15:51:27 +02:00
|> I would assume, if I didn't know better, that it had been sent at
|> 17:51 Universal Time, since 15+2=17.

The sign convention is NOT unfortunate, it is only the way it has been made to look on USENET.  "+02:00" is more properly written as "GMT+02:00" or "UTC+2".  The problem is the juxtaposition of a time with its time zone code, the latter stripped of "GMT" or "UTC".

	/Peter

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