Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!chilli.Berkeley.EDU!elm From: elm@chilli.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: What does this DATE: field mean? Message-ID: <30503@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 9 Aug 89 18:23:13 GMT References:<57167@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: elm@chilli.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller) Distribution: usa Organization: Berkeley--Riots 'R Us Lines: 23 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 ================================= ethan miller--cs grad student elm@ginger.berkeley.edu #include {...}!ucbvax!ginger!elm "I like the Austrian way better." -- Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.