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> I maintain that is a pretty horrid example for a newbie reading that
> os.date page, as there is no mention of time zone dependancy at that
> point.

I am not sure what I call "at that point", but there is a clear mention
a couple of paragraphs before:

  In a Unix system (where the epoch is 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970)
  running in Rio de Janeiro (which is three hours west of Greenwich), we
  have the following examples:

It seems reasonable to assume that the author did not move to another
country between the two examples.

-- Roberto