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This doesn't seem to work correctly for say London and Theran as the difference is not a round number of hours. Otherwise looks useful. Support for comparing

This doesn't seem to work correctly for say London and Theran as the difference is not a round number of hours. Otherwise looks useful. Support for comparing with more than two parties would be nice

DonHopkins 7y ago
I thought Warsaw was the last country with a non-hourly time zone, UTC+01:24, which they wisely abandoned ages ago, in 1915. Why on Earth would Tehran use such an arbitrary time zone offset? At least they're off by a half hour, instead of 24 minutes. But what possible reason could there be to do something like that, anyway? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B01:24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B01:24 >On 5 August 1915, Warsaw switched to Central European Time, and the rest of Poland quickly followed suit. Edit: Apparently Dublin Mean Time was even weirder than Warsaw's time zone, weighing in at UTC-00:25:21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200:25:21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200:25:21 >UTC−00:25:21 was used in Ireland as Dublin Mean Time. >Dublin Mean Time was introduced by the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880,[1] which also defined Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as legal time in Great Britain. This Act replaced local mean time, which had been held to be the legal time since Curtis v. March in 1858, throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. >From 3:00 am Dublin Summer Time on Sunday 1 October 1916, the Time (Ireland) Act, 1916[2] changed the time used in Ireland to be the same as that used in the UK, both during daylight saving time and at other times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Republic_of_Irelan... >John Dillon opposed the first reading of the Time (Ireland) Bill for having been introduced without consultation of the Irish Parliamentary Party; he said the different time in Ireland "reminds us that we are coming into a strange country".
- tacomonstrous 7y ago
  You should look up Nepal if you want to be really ticked off.
  - DonHopkins 7y ago
    On one hand, that ticks me off so much I want to clean their clock, but on the other hand, at least they have a round number of seconds. I'm having a hard time in the face of all this tock about temporal diversity.
  - netsharc 7y ago
    How about Higgins time... https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-August/026774.html https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-August/026774.html I'd link to JWZ's blog where I read about this, but he blocks HN referrals.

This doesn't seem to work correctly for say London and Theran as the difference is not a round number of hours. Otherwise looks useful. Support for comparing with more than two parties would be nice

DonHopkins 7y ago

I thought Warsaw was the last country with a non-hourly time zone, UTC+01:24, which they wisely abandoned ages ago, in 1915. Why on Earth would Tehran use such an arbitrary time zone offset? At least they're off by a half hour, instead of 24 minutes. But what possible reason could there be to do something like that, anyway? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B01:24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B01:24 >On 5 August 1915, Warsaw switched to Central European Time, and the rest of Poland quickly followed suit. Edit: Apparently Dublin Mean Time was even weirder than Warsaw's time zone, weighing in at UTC-00:25:21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200:25:21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200:25:21 >UTC−00:25:21 was used in Ireland as Dublin Mean Time. >Dublin Mean Time was introduced by the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880,[1] which also defined Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as legal time in Great Britain. This Act replaced local mean time, which had been held to be the legal time since Curtis v. March in 1858, throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. >From 3:00 am Dublin Summer Time on Sunday 1 October 1916, the Time (Ireland) Act, 1916[2] changed the time used in Ireland to be the same as that used in the UK, both during daylight saving time and at other times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Republic_of_Irelan... >John Dillon opposed the first reading of the Time (Ireland) Bill for having been introduced without consultation of the Irish Parliamentary Party; he said the different time in Ireland "reminds us that we are coming into a strange country".

tacomonstrous 7y ago
You should look up Nepal if you want to be really ticked off.
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  On one hand, that ticks me off so much I want to clean their clock, but on the other hand, at least they have a round number of seconds. I'm having a hard time in the face of all this tock about temporal diversity.
- netsharc 7y ago
  How about Higgins time... https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-August/026774.html https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-August/026774.html I'd link to JWZ's blog where I read about this, but he blocks HN referrals.