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Article #48Re: International time zones
From: Mark James
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 12:37
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 12:37
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In article <26808@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes: > >There is indeed a sizable Mormon minority in Tonga. However, Mormons >do not observe the Sabbath on Saturday; our day of rest and worship is >Sunday. [...] >Are you, perhaps, thinking of the Seventh-Day Adventists? Of course I was; my apologies to Mormons. BTW, now that Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia seem to have aligned their time zones on Greenwich half-hour boundaries, this leaves, as my nominee for the weirdest time zone, Nepal; they use Z+05:40 (or at least they did as recently as 1984). And on the subject of Z+13 zones: Could this be the missing `J' zone? (-; ### T. Mark James #### opinions, errors etc are my own ### ### mark@bdblues.altair.fr #### "Sure, living in the future is like ### +33 (1) 39 63 53 93 #### having bees live in your head. ################################ But, there they are..."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!inria!bdblues!mark From: mark@bdblues.inria.fr (Mark James) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: International time zones Keywords: Mormons in Tonga; weird time zones. Message-ID: <1390@inria.inria.fr> Date: 31 Aug 89 12:37:24 GMT References: <1389@inria.inria.fr> <26808@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@inria.inria.fr Reply-To: mark@bdblues.altair.fr Organization: GIP ALTAIR,c/o INRIA, Rocquencourt, FRANCE Lines: 21