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From: elm@chilli.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What does this DATE: field mean?
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Date: 9 Aug 89 18:23:13 GMT
References:  <57167@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In <57167@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Lum Johnson  writes:
%In article  sbaldwa@cadev4.intel.com writes:
%>A mail from a friend of mine from Holland had the following header..
%>..
%>DATE: 1 Aug 1989 14:43:01 +0200
%>..
%>Is this GMT time? What does +0200 mean?
%
%This is legitimate.  `14:43:01' is in UT (GMT); `+0200' is the time
%zone, expressed as hours of distance from Greenwich.  EST would be
%either `+0500' or `-0500', whichever one is in the right direction.
%Sorry, I don't remember whether `+' is East or West of Greenwich.

'-' is west of Greenwich.  The time in California is 3 hours earlier (hence
'-') than the time in Boston, so time gets earlier when you go west.  Besides,
the Netherlands is east of Greenwich, so it's a good guess that '+' means
east.

ethan
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