For a person who demands absolute precision and accuracy from others (USS is not unix, directory blocks are not 256, etc), your insistence that CST can be 7 hours off of GMT appears very much out of character. Your attempts to justify this with algebraic gibberish are unbelievable. Has someone hacked your account and posted this in your name or is at an early start on April 1 postings?
-----Original Message----- From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: clock, daylight savings time In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/11/2008 at 12:18 PM, "Schwarz, Barry A" said: >While all true, it doesn't address the question. Yes it does, because -(A-B) = (B-A); in particularar, (CDT-CST) = -(CST-CDT). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html