|
|
Subject: Re: half-hour time zones
From: Trayfors, William (btrayfors@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 21:54:23 EST
Paul:
There are some weird ones. India is on the half-hour (GMT +5:30). Nepal
used to be...maybe still is... 40 minutes off the hour (just to be different
from India) at GMT +5:40 :-))
There may be others.
Bill
At 06:44 PM 11/2/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Anyone know why some places have time offsets not an integral number
>of hours from Greenwich? Like Newfoundland. According to my atlas (a
>few years old), standard time there is some hours and 30 minutes
>behind Greenwich.
>
>I don't see any advantage to such an odd time zone, and several
>disadvantages. For example, I've heard that some GPS receivers won't
>allow fractional hour offsets for the local time display. And my
>watch, which has a secondary time zone, is the same way.
>
>Years ago I wrote a program which had to know the local time offset
>from Greenwich, and it accepted any offset, down to decimal seconds if
>you wanted. No arbitrary limitations for me! But I can sympathize with
>programmers who decline to cater to (or are ignorant of) weird time
>zones.
>
>I'd like to hear how Newfoundland got that time zone.
>
>--
>
>
>paulhirose@XXX.XXX (Paul Hirose)
______________________________________
Washington Decision Support Group, Inc.
Advanced Information Technology Consultants
2401 South Lynn Street, Arlington, VA 22202
Tel 703-838-8784 Fax 703-838-0019
|