Re: Unexpected behaviour with os.date("!%s")

[Paul Merrell <marbux@...>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> s in the header of your e-mail suggests "subtract 7 hours in order to get PST".
>
> BTW (I don't live there) is EST always +9 or is it sometimes different
> due to daylight saving?

Assuming you mean Eastern Standard Time (U.S. Atlantic Coast region):

Vocabulary: Eastern Standard Time (EST) is as opposed to Eastern
Daylight Time (EDT).

EST is UTC-5; EDT is UTC-4.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States#Time_zones>.

Best regards,

Paul

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