Re: 2822upd-04 "local" time and zone offsets

[Tony Finch <dot@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Bruce Lilly wrote:
>
> The issues arise from the difficulty in converting *correctly* to an
> unambiguous time reference (i.e. UTC) which in turn is partially due to
> an unfortunate choice in the sign of the offset, (resulting in
> erroneously adding the offset to local time to get UTC when it should be
> subtracted).

RFC 2822 and RFC 3339 and ISO 8601 use the same sign. AFAIK only the old
Unix TZ specifications use the wrong sign which I believe was for the
convenience of users in the same hemisphere as the developers.

Apart from this I'll just agree with Pete and Ned.

Tony.
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