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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7109 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:47:37 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!dbased.nuo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!e2big.mko.dec.com!uvo.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!sixter.var.dec.com!franzoni From: franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni) Subject: Re: problems with date Message-ID: <1993Jan18.131519.22234@rdg.dec.com> Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News) Reply-To: franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <1993Jan14.203042.12234@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1iu2jsINN518@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <1993Jan14.064517.7201@st.simbirsk.su> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 13:15:19 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1993Jan14.203042.12234@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth |> Being "east" of GMT doesn't mean you should use a negative number, I believe. |> Try "+23" and "+21" for your respective problems. As far as I know BSD do uses positives and negatives numbers for timezones, since the timezone in the config file is expressed as hours west of GMT, -1 is, e.g., the value for central europe. In real life, time zone is expressed with the range -12:+12 (and not 0:23) as well ; just the sign changes, being GMT+1 east from GMT. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Mauro Franzoni | franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com | blue like a blues ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Standard disclaimers apply: the above note is my own personal opinion, and not necessarily the opinion of my past, present or future employer. ======================================================================== =========