Time zone offsets

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From: Tony Finch
Subject: Time zone offsets
Date: 16:36 on 19 Dec 2006
So, in ISO 8601 and RFC 2822, positive time zone offsets denote zones east
(ahead) of Greenwich, but the POSIX TZ environment variable uses the
opposite sign. STUPID!

Tony.
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