Several people have shown the offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
with a decimal point.

ISO 8601 specifies a 4-digit number (including, if necessary), a leading
zero, consisting of 2 hours digits and 2 minutes digits, not hours and
decimal parts of hours.

Thus, Newfoundland Time is UTC -0330, not UTC -3.5.

One further point -- regarding something about which I'm also an offender
from time to time. If you're in catch-up mode, it's a good idea to read the
whole topic thread before replying. Someone else may already have addressed
a point you're about to address -- and with an essentially identical
response. Stephen Gallagher has now been corrected several times for the one
error.

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Barbara and/or Bill Hooper
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 20:48
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:17115] Re: Celebrations in Maastricht


on 1/1/2002 12:30 PM, Stephen Gallagher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Most of Eastern Canada is in Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-5).
> With the exception of Newfoundland which is (UTC - 4.5)

That should be
Atlantic Time (UTC-4)
and
Newfoundland Time (UTC-3.5).

Eastern (US) Time is UTC-5.

Regards,
Bill Hooper

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