Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/14/07 18:30

John Gordon wrote:

> Most websites I've seen just give the user 24 possible choices, for the
> 24 commonly-used time zones.

Well, that's just silly. Until about 50 years ago, Bombay was UTC+4:51;
until about 20 years ago, Nepal was UTC+5:40; Ireland was UTC-0:25;
Netherlands were UTC+0:20; Liberia used to be UTC-0:44.

Even now, there are plenty of places that use fractional time zones -- they
are n:15, n:30 and n:45 offset from UTC. And it's not just crappy little
islands that use them. India, population > 1 billion, uses UTC+5:30.
Certain Canadian and Australian states use fractional timezones

Whatsmore UTC-12 and UTC+12 both exist -- they are are not the same as each
other. There's UTC+13 and UTC+14 too.

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