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Bill Welliver | 28 Aug 01:39

Re: localtime()->timezone ???

I'm not sure if you're applying humour here or not, so I'll assume you're 
serious.

That just confirms that it's backward for everyone... the docs say "offset 
from UTC", so shouldn't that be +7200? I would think that -7200 would 
represent the offset _to_ UTC, or am I missing something? At the very 
least, it's the opposite of how most people think of time zone offsets.

Bill

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Johan Sundström (Achtung Liebe!) @ Pike (-) importmöte för mailinglistan wrote:

> It does, but you're thinking in negative space. UTC+2 (here) is -7200.
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Johan Sundström (Achtung Liebe!) @ Pike (-) importmöte för mailinglistan | 28 Aug 01:55

Re: localtime()->timezone ???

"Offset to UTC" might be better documentation, but something even more
verbose and enlightening wouldn't hurt. AFAIK, all time zone APIs that
give UTC offsets have the timestamp as the frame of reference, rather
than UTC itself; add timestamp and UTC offset to get UTC time. You may
try javascript:alert((new Date).getTimezoneOffset()) in your browser,
for instance, for the browser object model equivalent (-120 in UTC+2).