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