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 :( -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Oct 30 2002, 24 Heshvan 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |You do not need a parachute to skydive. http://nadav.harel.org.il |You only need one to skydive twice. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
