On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Philip Newton wrote: > > Summer time in the British Isles is one hour later than UTC, so +01:00 > would seem to be logical.
That is the standard form in every situation except one obscure case that only programmers need to know about. See ISO 8601 and RFC 3339. > I think the POSIX TZ variable has those offsets the other way around, That is the only exception. You should never present POSIX inverted TZ offsets to users. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND: NORTH BACKING WEST OR NORTHWEST, 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 LATER IN HUMBER AND THAMES. MODERATE OR ROUGH. RAIN THEN FAIR. GOOD.
