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

Question

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 1

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