[time-nuts] How can it be :05 in one place and :30 in another

Gretchen Baxter gretchendenisebaxter at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 03:13:04 UTC 2008


I am confused.

Why do they do that?  what is the benefit?



On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> From: "Gretchen Baxter" <gretchendenisebaxter at gmail.com>
> Subject: [time-nuts] How can it be :05 in one place and :30 in another
> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:44:54 -0400
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I went to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
> >
> > I saw that it was 10:35 in New York but in Adelaide it was 1:05 PM and in
> > New Delhi 8:05.
> >
> > How can that be?
>
> 1/2 hour offset timezones are more common than you think.
>
> Warner
>


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