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Shouldn't there be two minute hands if you add LA and India (PST and IST)? The minutes are offset by 30 mins in this scenario.
by nsainaney 4y ago
Shouldn't there be two minute hands if you add LA and India (PST and IST)? The minutes are offset by 30 mins in this scenario.
- gumby 4y agoYou can see this by the position of the hour hands. The minute hand is “just” a convenience.
- psnehanshu 4y agoAnother one for Nepal, they have an offset of 45 mins.
- dfee 4y agoCame here looking for a comment suggesting these discrepancies. I was not disappointed. See also: “Falsehoods programmers believe about time” https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
- PascalPixel 4y agoHey meaniehead... I added offsets to the hour hands for +30 and +45 timezones!
- ciex 4y agoCan anyone recommend a book that discusses in depth all the peculiarities of timekeeping, time zones, historical efforts for measuring time, etc.? I would love to read something like that and I feel that there are many stories to be told.
- tinodb 4y agoIt’s a long post, not a book but still a great resource on this topic: https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right
- mikrl 4y agoAlso, Newfoundland and Labrador (GMT -3:30)
- askvictor 4y agoAnd South Australia
- spiffytech 4y agoIt appears the minute hand only reflects local time. When I add time zones with fractional-hour offsets, the hour hand for those zones is at the appropriate angle within the indicated hour.