GMT Delta Confusion

[Markus Kuhn]

"Richard L. Shockney" wrote on 1999-06-09 17:42 UTC:
> I recently designed a time zone converter and reference site using the
> excellent database that is maintained at this site. Conversions between time
> zones appear as expected except when the time zone involves one of the
> Etc/GMT+ or Etc/GMT- designations.

The sign of the Etc/GMT+-... files is as defined in POSIX.1

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/posix-1-8-1-1.pdf

for the TZ environment variable, which many people consider to be
counterintuitive and also incompatible to the ISO 8601 notation

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html#zone

Hope this helped

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>