On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Paul Eggert wrote:
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On second thought you're probably right. This stuff is so obsolete now, changing it would probably add to confusion rather than subtracting it.
Oops.. Sorry, but i can't imagine how can keeping wrong subtract confusion.
Note the comments in the file itself:
# We use POSIX-style signedness in the names and output, # internal-style signedness in the specifications. # For example, TZ=Etc/GMT+4 corresponds to 4 hours _behind_ UTC; # it is equivalent to TZ=GMT+4, which is implemented directly as per POSIX.
It's you, who said: ``Note the comments''! As it seems to me, defineing GMT+4 as Zone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - GMT+4 is a bit wrong, as it is really 4 hours _ahead_ of UTC.
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How about if we change the above comments to be something like this instead?
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Will this change make me happy? I want right time displayed, and i use TZ=Etc/GMT+6. Bye! P.S: I'm not in list, and i'm not an experienced enough. So, i beg you pardon in avant, if my opinion is stupid and i can't understand it by myself. Maybe i'm confused a lot, and i have to use GMT-6 ? I live in Siberia, and it is always 6 hours _later_ then GMT.