Lurker here with a little different perspective on what you are 
seeing.  They are attempting to let you know your local time is four hours 
after GMT.  That is GMT less 4 hours to get your local time.  NOT your time 
less four hours to get GMT.


You wrote:
>       Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:38:00 -0400
>
>Well, maybe I need to learn to read this mentally as "it's 15:38 local
>time, in a time zone that is 4 hours behind GMT (so I need to add 4
>hours if I want GMT)" (and work on shrinking it).
>
>"it's 15:38 local time, 4 hours behind GMT (so I need to add 4 hours if
>I want GMT)"
>
>"it's 15:38 local time, change the sign and add to get GMT"  (which is
>back to where I was)
>
>"it's 15:38 local time, idiots got the sign wrong" (??)
>
>"local time, wrong sign"  (at least it rhymes ;-)
>
>Well, we'll see.
>
>Thanks for the response!
>Randy Kramer
>
>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

TIA,
'd'
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San Antonio, Texas


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