Re: [HACKERS] +1400 is a valid time zone offset

2006-10-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:52:35PM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > In 1995, Kiribati decided to move the international date line, so that > all of the constituent islands lie on the same side. As a consequence, > the Easternmost islands are now at GMT+1400. > > (There's some controvery about whe

[HACKERS] +1400 is a valid time zone offset

2006-10-18 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
In 1995, Kiribati decided to move the international date line, so that all of the constituent islands lie on the same side. As a consequence, the Easternmost islands are now at GMT+1400. (There's some controvery about whether they had the right to move the IDL, but they have the right to decide wh