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From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
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Subject: Re: What time is it? [Was: Data compression standard]
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Date: 29 Jun 91 12:57:37 GMT
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In-Reply-To: yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 27 Jun 91 12: 24:35 GMT
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K P Donnelly <yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk> writes:
|
|   If I received a message with a time stamp of
|	      1991-06-25 15:51:27 +02:00
|   I would assume, if I didn't know better, that it had been sent at
|   17:51 Universal Time, since 15+2=17.  In fact, of course, it was sent at
|	      1991-06-25 13:51:27

Well, it's actually short-hand for GMT+02:00.  The time listed is two
hours more than UT.

I think it's intuitive, because I view it from UT, not from local time
to UT.  I think this makes a lot of sense.  In addition, if we change,
we will get massive confusion, and equally useless time zone
indications as the military time zones in RFC 822 (which were listed
wrong, and consequently are rendered ambiguous -> meaningless).

</Erik>
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