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.
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