Chris Thompson <cet1@???> wrote:
>
> You might very well guess that those had something to do with the USA
> having to be in the positive direction ... I couldn't possibly comment.
Actually, following a bit of historical research this gets even more
amusing :-) RFC822's time zone specification comes from ANSI standard
X3.51-1975, so the POSIX reversal is just another of those Unix SNAFUs.
Tony.
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