I think Eliot was making a 420 / California  joke...

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:19 PM Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nope, CA is 7 hours behind UTC - hence the -420.
> And Google backs me up on this:
> [image: image.png]
> Of course, with the current implementation of DateAndTime, where the
> date/time is stored in local time, the offset is...weird.  You have to
> subtract the offset to get to UTC.
> If/when we adopt the UTCDateAndTime package, then the internal
> represenatation and offset mirrors the rest of the industry, where you add
> the offset to the internal UTC time to get to the local time.
>
> -cbc
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:11 AM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>     I note that here in California
>>         (DateAndTime localTimeZone offset asSeconds / 60) rounded = -420
>> but surely in CA it is +420 ??
>>
>> ;-)
>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> best, Eliot
>>
>>
>
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