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0 pointsjhugo2y ago0 comments

India manages to deal with a fractional offset from UTC, as well as several other countries. It’s really not that big a deal.

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netsharc2y ago

That makes me wonder of the little adaptions they need, that we Minute-Zero-ians ;) don't notice... do many Indian desktops have world clocks, for example?

madcaptenor2y ago

I just had a look through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets, because I thought it was just India and some obscure little islands - but some fairly substantial countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka) also have non-whole-hour time zones.

rational_indian2y ago

Regular people dont't have world clocks. Only people who need to care about this do.

Tagbert2y ago

and that 30 minute offset makes quick mental timezone math doubly hard and error prone. What is the benefit of merging timezones?

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