Re: Hong Kong handover honored by leap second?
George Mitchell (george@mvp.com)
Tue, 1 Jul 1997 20:24:12 -0700 (PDT)
> Does anyone else find the sign convention counter-intuitive? For
> example, it's true that 15:33:49 -0700 == 18:33:49 -0400. If the signs
> were the other way, that equation would actually look true.
It agrees with the signed latitude convention. Or you can read it,
mentally supplying "UTC" just before the minus sign (i.e.
15:33:49 (UTC-0700).
-- George Mitchell (george@mvp.com)