Sam Steingold  <sds@goems.com> wrote:
+---------------
| time zone ...  a number of hours offset from Greenwich Mean Time.
| Time zone values increase with motion to the west, so Massachusetts,
| U.S.A. is in time zone 5, California, U.S.A. is time zone 8...
+---------------

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.


-Rob

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