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From: | Andreas Schwab |
Subject: | bug#11807: M-x display-time-world & EDT/DST |
Date: | Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:39:01 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes: > This is what I see *now. > > Seattle Thursday 28 June 00:56 PDT > New York Thursday 28 June 03:56 EDT <=== This is off by 1-hr. > London Thursday 28 June 08:56 BST > Paris Thursday 28 June 09:56 CDT > Bangalore Thursday 28 June 14:26 IST <=== Local time. This is correct > Tokyo Thursday 28 June 17:56 JST You are using the wrong timezone (GMT+6:30 instead of GMT+5:30). >>> | ("IST-5:30" "Bangalore") <=== Why this ''minus''. Isn't IST = GMT+5:30? >> >> For the same reason New York is EST5EDT. > > It is consistent but counter-intuitive. It is a gotcha. It is a fact of life and perfectly correct. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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