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From: shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley)
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Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
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Date: 19 Dec 90 15:24:12 GMT
References: <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec13.180844.15200@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec14.000511.2507@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec14.130316.21515@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <7590@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <7590@castle.ed.ac.uk> yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly) writes:
>Isn't the sign convention in numeric dates rather unfortunate?
>e.g. If a mail message arives with time stamp
>       07:34:02 -0500
>this means that it was sent at
>       07:34:02 +05:00:00  = 11:34:02 GMT (or "Universal Time")

Depends on your point of view.  Don't look at it as subtracting from the
time; think of it as subtracting from GMT to achieve that time.
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