> Not only that, but if you asked ruby to represent the epoch in Berlin with “%s %z“, it did it correctly:

> DateTime.parse('1970-01-01T01:00:00 +0100').strftime('%s %z') => "0 +0100"

Does that mean that "0 +0000" is the same as "0 +0100", "0 +0200", "0 +0300" etc.?