sbaldwa@cad051.intel.com (Sanjay Baldwa ~) (08/07/89)
A mail from a friend of mine from Holland had the following header.. .. .. DATE: 1 Aug 1989 14:43:01 +0200 .. .. Is this GMT time? What does +0200 mean? -- ..!decwrl \ ..!hplabs \ ..!oliveb )-!intelca!mipos3!cadev4!sbaldwa sbaldwa@cadev4.intel.com ..!amdcad / ..!pur-ee /
lum@armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) (08/09/89)
In article <SBALDWA.89Aug7095703@cad051.intel.com> sbaldwa@cadev4.intel.com writes: >A mail from a friend of mine from Holland had the following header.. >.. >DATE: 1 Aug 1989 14:43:01 +0200 >.. >Is this GMT time? What does +0200 mean? This is legitimate. `14:43:01' is in UT (GMT); `+0200' is the time zone, expressed as hours of distance from Greenwich. EST would be either `+0500' or `-0500', whichever one is in the right direction. Sorry, I don't remember whether `+' is East or West of Greenwich. Lum -=- -- Lum Johnson lum@cis.ohio-state.edu lum@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu "You got it kid -- the large print giveth and the small print taketh away." -------
elm@chilli.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller) (08/10/89)
In <57167@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Lum Johnson <lum@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: %In article <SBALDWA.89Aug7095703@cad051.intel.com> sbaldwa@cadev4.intel.com writes: %>A mail from a friend of mine from Holland had the following header.. %>.. %>DATE: 1 Aug 1989 14:43:01 +0200 %>.. %>Is this GMT time? What does +0200 mean? % %This is legitimate. `14:43:01' is in UT (GMT); `+0200' is the time %zone, expressed as hours of distance from Greenwich. EST would be %either `+0500' or `-0500', whichever one is in the right direction. %Sorry, I don't remember whether `+' is East or West of Greenwich. '-' is west of Greenwich. The time in California is 3 hours earlier (hence '-') than the time in Boston, so time gets earlier when you go west. Besides, the Netherlands is east of Greenwich, so it's a good guess that '+' means east. ethan ================================= ethan miller--cs grad student elm@ginger.berkeley.edu #include <std/disclaimer.h> {...}!ucbvax!ginger!elm "I like the Austrian way better." -- Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.