>OK. Still don't understand what 2011-08-23T17:05:04.859-17:05 actually represents tho. -17:00 I could understand, but -17:05 ?
This was before it wasn't good. That was a bad layout.
The proper representation is:
2011-08-23T17:05:04.859-05:05
So, I had to adjust accordingly to that.