Re: localtime()->timezone ???

I believe Java's APIs work the other way as does the gnu/bsd tm struct  
member tm_gmtoff... but I guess that's beside the point. If someone  
else hasn't gotten around to fixing the docs, I'll take care of it  
when I get back in town this weekend.

Bill

On Aug 27, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Johan Sundström (Achtung Liebe!) @ Pike  
(-) importmöte för mailinglistan wrote:

> "Offset to UTC" might be better documentation, but something even more
> verbose and enlightening wouldn't hurt. AFAIK, all time zone APIs that
> give UTC offsets have the timestamp as the frame of reference, rather
> than UTC itself; add timestamp and UTC offset to get UTC time. You may
> try javascript:alert((new Date).getTimezoneOffset()) in your browser,
> for instance, for the browser object model equivalent (-120 in UTC+2).
>