From fortran@vnet.IBM.COM Fri Sep 17 04:39:46 1993 Received: from vnet.ibm.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA13207 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 17 Sep 1993 20:49:52 +0200 Message-Id: <199309171849.AA13207@dkuug.dk> Received: from STLVM7 by vnet.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5690; Fri, 17 Sep 93 14:48:25 EDT Date: Fri, 17 Sep 93 11:39:46 PDT From: fortran@vnet.IBM.COM To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: ZONE - DATE AND TIME intrinsic X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Eastern Siberia is 12 hours ahead of UTC, while Western Alaska is 11 hours behind. The DATA_AND_TIME intrinsic defines ZONE as the time difference with respect to UTC. The difference between 0 and 12 is either +12 or -12, the difference between 0 and 11 is either +11 or -11; it all depends on your point of view. Should I be in Siberia, I have to add 12 to UTC to get local time. Should I be in Siberia, I have to subtract 12 from local time to get UTC. Is the range of values for ZONE -1100 to +1200 or -1200 to +1100 ? Thanks, Dick Weaver IBM M77/E365,555 Bailey Ave,PO 49023,San Jose Ca 95161-9023 internet: fortran@vnet.ibm.com 408-463-2956, fax ...-3114