bug#11807: M-x display-time-world & EDT/DST

[Andreas Schwab]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> ,---- http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179
> | 
> | Current Time|Wednesday, 27 June 2012, 05:27:42 EDT <=== Time now

Looking at it now I see 04:54, which agrees with what display-time-world
shows.

> |  ("IST-5:30" "Bangalore")  <=== Why this ''minus''. Isn't IST = GMT+5:30?

For the same reason New York is EST5EDT.

Andreas.

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