Re: Funny timezones

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 23/09/2006, at 3:21 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:

> > Yep, you're right. I did not found it there because I compared the  
> > time of the
> > mails. The problem is Clyties obscure timeshift of 9 hours and 30  
> > minutes against
> > UTC :-))
>
>
> Well, welcome to Australia....:-)
>
> South Australia's timezone, ACST, is *really* UTC +0930. Queensland,
> NSW and Victoria (The eastern part of AUS) are AEST and UTC+1000,
> while Western AUS is UTC+0800.
>
> There are a few "weird" timezones in the world, which non integer
> differences with UTC. The biggest one covers India at UTC+0530 and the
> weirdest covers Nepal at, IIRC UTC+0545.....:-)....so when you cross
> the border from India to nepal you change your watch's time by 15
> minutes.

Thanks for explaining that, Christian. :)

The D-I Level 1 PO file makes a useful UTC reference nowadays!

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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