> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Tristan McLeay
> > One thing I though was screwy about Oz time was Western
Australia
> > being off-alignment from other zones by 30 minutes. The same
thing
> > happens in India. I'm not quite sure what logic is involved
there.
>
> It's actually central time (i.e. South Australia and the Northern
> Territory) that's +0930 (standard; +1030 daylight savings in SA
only).
> Western Australia is +0800, the same as China.
>
> The logic involved is much the same as with having +0900, except
that
> you're half an hour ahead of +0900, so you go +0930. Some areas do
> offsets of a quarter of an hour too, as with the defacto +0845 I
> mentioned before in eastern Western Australia.
I haven't been anywhere except the Eastern part of the country which
ISTR was all on a single time, but remember seeing WA on a map and
scratching my head as to why. Likewise when going to India and
seeing it 1/2 hour off from it's neighbors.