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Well 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 U
by contravariant 5y ago
Well 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.