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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: time zone range
Date: 1999/04/20
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* rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
| Why did they do that?  Seems backwards from other common notions
| of timezones.  E.g., RFC 822 mail header date format treats "PST"
| (California non-daylight-savings time) and "-0800" the same,
| and "PDT" == "-0700", etc.

  also in the great¹ Unix tradition, PST is 8 and PDT is 7.

#:Erik
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