Thanks for all the info... very useful. Manish
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of $Bill Luebkert Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best ways to find time/date differences [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>UTC simply means you have a + or - in \d\d\d\d where the first two are >>>hours and the second two minutes format in relation to GMT (UTC +0000); >> >>That's just a way of 'formatting' or 'representing' the UTC time. I should have said "in local terms" there. > No, that indicates local time, not UTC. The +/- is hours difference from UTC > instead of using a specific time zone abbrev. which all people are not > familiar with. > eg. "13 Dec 2005 10:47:20 -0800" is local time for USA Pacific Standard > Time, or "PST", which is 8 hours behind UTC. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
