FWIW I did an accounting elective at college and ran the books for a small business for a couple of years. I'm comfortable with the conventions :-) I was just s

FWIW I did an accounting elective at college and ran the books for a small business for a couple of years. I'm comfortable with the conventions :-) I was just saying OP was choosing to encode the conventions differently internally and display them a different way to meet the external convention, like GMT+TZ. You need never known your computer stores time in GMT and most people don't, even the accountants.