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Defining CET as UTC+01:00 makes sense, because you get the local time by adding an hour to UTC. And then you extend that convention to timestamps, where you inc
by CodesInChaos 5y ago
Defining CET as UTC+01:00 makes sense, because you get the local time by adding an hour to UTC. And then you extend that convention to timestamps, where you include a timezone indicator, not an arithmetic expression.
- contravariant 5y agoWell yeah CET = UTC + 01:00 makes sense. If UTC=02:00 then you'd get CET = 02:00 + 01:00 = 03:00, which all works out nicely. Solving for UTC would then give UTC = CET-01:00. So if you want something equivalent to UTC without explicitly denoting the timezone it'd make more sense to denote 03:00 CET as 03:00-01:00 rather than 03:00+01:00. I mean sure technically you're appending the timezone, but if you omit all the detail that makes it clear that it is a timezone then I just think it looks silly.