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

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

yep, in so many words... actually, you subtract but subtracting a negative
is the same as adding a positive... i kinda confused me when i was working
on some timebased code until i figured out that going from local time to
UTC was a subtraction process instead of an addition process :)

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

looks like it... but i'm not sure how that is happening from what i've been
reading...

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