What does +0000 mean in the context of a date returned by the twitter API?

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wwaawaw picture wwaawaw · Sep 6, 2012 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

This:

"Tue Jan 12 21:33:28 +0000 2010"

was returned from Twitter's API. The rest are fairly obvious, but what does +0000 refer to? Is it some type of denotation of a timezone?

Answer

garyKeorkunian picture garyKeorkunian · Sep 6, 2012

This does denote timezone. It is the offset from UTC time.

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