Subject: Re: time zone range From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/04/20 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3133601539513432@naggum.no> * 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 ------- ¹ riiiight