Re: OT: Time zone question

Admittedly so, but what I'm ruing here is the rather ridiculous attempt to
achieve "unity" in a thing like time, for political motives. FWIW
Singapore's time zone is also artificially set an hour ahead of what it
should be, for the sake of harmonising business times with Hong Kong, Taiwan
and China. Though in this case I can't say that anything objectively bad
resulted.
Eugene

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
wrote:

> On 28/05/08 22:31:25, Eugene Oh wrote:
> >
> > We can say, here, "Blame Beijing". (:
> > Time zones are too coronal in their decision, and many have resulted
> > in
> > utterly illogical divisions, like China's. Oh well.
>
> So? Just set your clock to whatever time you want. It used to work fine
> before the invented trains, and it still works fine in eastern Western
> Australia where a few towns --- admittedly with only a very small
> population --- run on +08:45, the midpoint between WA's +08:00 and
> neighboring South Australia's 09:30. (Perth, the capital of WA, is on
> the western coast; Adelaide, the capital of SA, is pretty far east. The
> distance between the two cities is more than half the width of the
> continent, and there's no cities of note between the two.)
>
> If the divisions are illogical, everyone else would agree with you too.
>
> (That, or just ignore the clocks and run on sun and stomach time. It
> works for me, as long as I'm somewhere I'm used to ;)
>
> --
> Tristan.
>