Yes some India time zones are 30 mins offset
IST is UTC +5:30.
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 1:23 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I had tickets once for a concert in Fort Wayne, IN and missed the
> beginning because I didn’t realize that part of Indiana is on Eastern time.
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> Aren’t there some countries where the clocks are 30 minutes offset?
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Monday, December 30, 2024 12:14 PM
> *To:* af@af.afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] daylight saving time
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> I have long believed that literal clock time is mostly irrelevant. Set a
> time and stick to it. Individual businesses, schools, etc. pick their
> office hours anyway.
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> China has the right idea; they have 1 time zone for the whole country so
> you don't have to even think about what zone you're in. We could do the
> same thing here, it would just mean that local stuff happens at different
> times than what might be "traditional".
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> bp
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> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
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> On 12/30/2024 9:29 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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> Explain something to me about the debate over daylight saving time.
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> Why can’t schools, businesses, etc. simply change their hours if they want
> more daylight before or after school and work? Do people want everything
> to run on the same mandated hours so that parents work times and kids’
> daycare school are in sync?
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> I have in the past worked for companies that went on “summer hours” to
> maximize the daylight hours for other activities after work. Basically,
> double DST. Perhaps the surprising thing about it was I don’t think the
> company gained anything, they did it because employees liked it.
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> Also, several of the companies I worked for had “flex hours”. Typically
> this gave employees 1 or 2 hours flexibility on their start time as long as
> they put in their 8 hours and everyone was in the office for some core
> period like 10-4.
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