Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu!lum From: lum@armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: What does this DATE: field mean? Message-ID: <57167@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 14:25:52 GMT References:Reply-To: Lum Johnson Distribution: usa Organization: The Ohio State University, IRCC/CIS Joint Computing Laboratory Lines: 18 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. Lum -=- -- Lum Johnson lum@cis.ohio-state.edu lum@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu "You got it kid -- the large print giveth and the small print taketh away." -------