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to: Dallas Hinton
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2006-05-15 21:00:00
subject: Time zone info

Hello Dallas.

15 May 06 07:40, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> % 08:57:55  (401) Connecting to BinkP site bandmaster.tzo.com...

 MvdV>> That -8:00 for the time zone, is that correct?

 DH> Yup, that's right.




 MvdV>> It does not seem rigth to me. My local time is 08:57. I am at
 MvdV>> +2:00. If you were at -8:00 the difference would be 10 hours. So
 MvdV>> 08:57 local time here would be 22:57 your local time. But it
 MvdV>> says 23:57. Something does not add up..

 DH> You came in at 23:57 on May 14th. and in PST8PDT (which is what I'm
 DH> in) converts to 06:57:00 Monday May 15, 2006 in GMT

Noww I am confused. If the -8:00 is correct, that means I should add 8
hours to your local time to get UTC shouldn't I?

But then 23:57 plus 8 is 07:57, not 06:57. So I still miss an hour....

Cheers, Michiel

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