GMT plus or minus

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Kirk -
Yes. The nettamer docs even emphasize the rationale you describe as
"difference to GMT" and if you never looked any farther, you might be
persuaded!
Chuck.


On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 cpt.kirk at 1tree.net wrote:

> I would guess that they are looking at the offset to correct the "average"
> person's PC time back to GMT. While not discounting the usefullness of
> semantics (like which key is the backslash), I would say that it does come
> into that. The standard is to specify the difference FROM GMT. But one
> could as easily think of it as the difference TO GMT.
> 
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> ------------------
> 
> Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now).
> 
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