From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Amod Phadke" Subject: Re: GMT Timezones Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:04:09 +0800 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030312040409.23338.qmail@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: toomai@tiscali.it, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org I think you are looking at the GMT concept wrongly. If we assume GMT as '0' (zero). Then if the sun dawns on central europe 1 hr after it dawns on Greenwitch it is considered as - (minus). If sun dawns on a region before it dawns on Greenwitch it is considered + (plus) eg. Sun dawns on India 5:30 hrs before it dawans on Greenwitch so Indian time in GMT format will be GMT + 5:30 Cheers, AMOD. -- _______________________________________________ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze