Randy Kramer wrote:
>
> I know this is at least slightly off topic (well, it's a newbie
> question, maybe not a Linux question) ;-)
>
> I'd like to make sense of the way times are reported in email.
>
> I'm in the Eastern (U.S.) Time Zone, with Daylight Savings in effect.
>
> Just a few minutes (3:38 PM) ago I sent myself a test email.
>
> Looking at the test email, the date and time (sent) is reported as:
>
> Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:38:00 -0400
>
> OK. Clearly the "15:38" is my local time.
>
> Then there is the "-0400", and if I'm not mistaken, right now (daylight
> savings) we are four hours different than Greenwich Mean Time.
>
Look at it like time is always UT (the current designation for "GMT"),
local time where you are is 4 hours earlier, hence, the - sign. If you
were on the other side of the International Date Line you would be
ahead, hence the + sign.
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