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#10317 11/20/00 01:35 AM
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bel, I loved that "got and done." Here we'd say "over and done." Whence? Anyone else around the world use one or t'other expression?


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I've finally become an addict and it didn't even hurt.


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My sincerest contrafibularities - aren't you glad that's over and done with? Your comment about half- and quarter-hour timezones intrigued me. How many of those are there? Here in NZ the Chatham Islands are 45 minutes ahead of us, where else are there timezone increments of other one hour?


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where else are there timezone increments of other one hour?

Max,

I can only speak with authority for the Australian locations South Australia (Adelaide) and Northern Territory (Darwin), both GMT +9:30, but judging from the choices I get when I make a custom change to my Windows clock or your handy clockrack (I think the list I see is courtesy of Mr Gates), there are also the following:

GMT -3:30 Newfoundland
GMT +3:30 Tehran
GMT +4:30 Kabul
GMT +5:30 Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi

Agrees with the list at http://time.greenwich2000.com/info/time-now.htm

Note the Chatham Islands don't appear on either.

The Greenwich site refers to "standard" time zones which differ from GMT by an integer number of hours.





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Correct about the four Indian metros. India made the decision to have the entire country on a single time zone (no summer time either), and the only one that was not too bizarre for either westernmost or easternmost India was the half hour. I think that if you look at a time zone map (oh so helpdfully provided in the reference section of mist 'business' diaries), you'll see that thanks to China also adopting a rather extreme policy on time zones, you can travel north from India into China and suddenly find 2 and a half hours added to your time. Also, if you travel from Assam through Bangladesh into West Bengal, your time (even though you're headed westwards) can go from, say, 0630 to 0700 (and then back to 0630 again).

A quick scan also seems to show that Nepal may be 5 and three quarter hours ahead of GMT.


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Note the Chatham Islands don't appear on either.



I suppose that a few small islands with perhaps 600 or so human residents don't amount to a hill of beans, now that the pseudo-millennium madness has passed.



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