Re: OT: Time zone question

Peter Collier wrote:
> quoting Benct Philip Jonsson:
>
>> [...] FWIW I think it would be convenient if all of
>> Europe from the Atlantic to the Volga had one
>> timezone [...]
>
> Nah, you'd be throwing out the baby with the bathwater
> there.
>
> All that would happen in that scenario is, that
> instead of needing to know that, for example,
> 'Ekaterinburg's time is 5 hours ahead of Dublin, you'd
> need to know that Dulin's working day was perhaps 7am
> to 3pm and Ekaterinburgs 11am to 8pm (assuming the
> standard time was based on a central-ish zone).
I reckon it would be the other way around, as the Sun rises and sets
5 hours earlier in Ekaterinburg.

LEF

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