On Wed, Oct 30, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Timezone GMT+2 and Date 
behavior":
> "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > This is the way I always remember it being it on UNIX; West of
> > England (e.g., the USA) was positive offsets, east (e.g., Israel)
> > was negative.
> 
> The confusion is, apparently, due to the fact that the normal time
> reporting lists time as UTC + offset, with the offset positive to
> the *East* of Prime Meridian:
> 
> $ date +%z
> +0200
> $ date
> Wed Oct 30 11:27:21 IST 2002
> $ date -u
> Wed Oct 30 09:27:24 UTC 2002

I never thought about that before. Yeah, it's really confusing :(

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