On 6/23/24 01:35, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
On 23/6/24 14:25, David Wright wrote:
On Sun 23 Jun 2024 at 12:52:55 (+1000), Keith Bainbridge wrote:
Have you ever pondered why the 'international date line' is so
convoluted?
Only on the odd occasion when an area decides to cross it, for
whatever reason. Like Samoa recently. And before that, the
creation of Pacific/Kiritimati (+14:00), which became a press
story at the start of the new millennium.
+14:00?? I've only ever heard of maxima of +/- 12:00. But see below
A attribute the FCC forced on broadcasters as they like to see
transmitter logs kept in 24 hour time. I got so used to it that when I
retired in 2002, I'd been on 24 hour time for 40 years and didn't
convert back to two 12 hour periods a day. The AM/PM convention. So
when I say its 22:30, its 10:30 PM to the neighbors next door.
As for odd time zones, we have a narrow one, somewhere between the
West Australian border (with Sth Aust) and the first notable town on
the road West - Norseman. It's 45 mins different from Sth Aust and the
a further 45 mins to main stream West Aust. There might be 10,000
people live within it.
$ TZ=Pacific/Kiritamati date; TZ=Australia/Eucla date
Sun Jun 23 04:24:54 Pacific 2024
Sun Jun 23 13:09:54 +0845 2024
$
So Eucla: Sun Jun 23 13:09:54 would be UTC: Sun Jun 23 04:24:54
How do we get that time in the middle of the Pacific? Surely it would be
Sat Jun22 18:24:54
And then I see a LOT of discussion on my suggestion about how MUA format
the send time when people reply. I'll get back to that later.
Cheers,
David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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