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Message 16 of 22 (751129)
02-27-2015 2:50 PM
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02-27-2015 6:08 AM


Note also that, when you hover the cursor over the dots, Easter Island does not show a -6 time but a -5 time like New York.
Southern hemisphere, so they may be on daylight savings time at present.

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Message 17 of 22 (751130)
02-27-2015 2:57 PM
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02-27-2015 7:38 AM


It can't be Daylight Savings Time, because no region in the world is on Daylight Savings Time yet (DST begins 3/8 in the US, 3/29 in the UK, France and Spain, 4/5 in Melbourne, and Brisbane doesn't use DST).
Sydney (Australia) seems to be on Daylight Savings Time, though that will probably change soon as the southern hemisphere moves toward fall and winter.

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Message 18 of 22 (751140)
02-27-2015 3:15 PM
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02-27-2015 9:46 AM


Doh! It's summer in Australia, of course they're on DST (some of them, anyway).
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Message 19 of 22 (751141)
02-27-2015 3:38 PM


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A couple centuries back when I was just a pup I was out to dinner with some of our senior sales folks. Yes, I was a teckie but I was their teckie and they took it on themselves to look after me. Anywho, one of the guys was telling us about his trip into the rural back lands where he stopped to get a haircut at one of his favorite old-fashioned real barber-pole barber shops. The farmers knew him and welcomed him since he was the banker’s friend and they sat around talking of life. One older woman, he described as hard as stone and grizzled, was up in the chair getting her hair cut and was carrying on about how the government never did nothing for the farmers always catering to them city folks. She was adamant that the government had no right to be changing the clocks and fiddling with God’s time. That extra hour of sunlight was just burning up her crops.

  
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Message 20 of 22 (751156)
02-28-2015 7:24 AM


Funny little timezones
I'm a big fan of daft little timezones. There's a weird little one in Australia called Central Western Standard Time, which is set at 8h45mins ahead of UTC, with no daylight saving. This is an attempt to compromise between Central and Western time, and avoid the fact that otherwise you jump two and a half hours in one go passing from Western to Southern Australia at certain times of year. The population of the area covered by CWST is about 200.
Russia used to have some tiny little timezones until very recently, but the Federal government sadly abolished them - this does mean there are a few two-hour jumps in Russia though.

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Message 21 of 22 (751159)
02-28-2015 8:07 AM
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02-28-2015 7:24 AM


Re: Funny little timezones
I've always like Newfoundland time -- 1/2 hour off the other zones
http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-canada12.php
and they wonder why Newfies are different

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Message 22 of 22 (751190)
02-28-2015 5:30 PM
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02-28-2015 8:07 AM


Re: Funny little timezones
Half hours aren't that special - there are quite a few, and a large percentage of the worlds population is on a 1/2 hour offset, since Indian Standard Time is UTC + 5 1/2. The special cases are the quarter hours. I mentioned the little Aussie one before - there's also the New Zealand territory of the Chatham Islands, whose time is set at 13 hours 45 minutes ahead of UTC, and I think some uninhabited US owned islands in the Pacific have a similar timezone.
These are sparesly inhabited places, so it doesn't matter to many people, but Nepal deserves special mention as being the only proper country to do this. Nepal time is 5h45 ahead of UTC - because why not?

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