Re: OT: Time zone question

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.

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