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I don’t understand this. What practical difference does it make making the time to round to the nearest quarter of an hour instead of the nearest hour? Personal
by volemo 1y ago
I don’t understand this. What practical difference does it make making the time to round to the nearest quarter of an hour instead of the nearest hour? Personally, I don’t care if noon (sun is in zenith) happens half an hour before 12:00 or half an hour after.
Why do such time zones exist?
- johnisgood 1y agoWell, I do not know the answer to that, my guess is that it is for historical, political, geographical, and socio-economic reasons. For example in terms of India, they had two timezones before they adopted a compromise: UTC+5:30. Nepal uses UTC+5:45, partly to distinguish itself from Indian Standard Time, reinforcing national identity.
- volemo 1y ago> India, they had two timezones before they adopted a compromise: UTC+5:30. Truly, a compromise is when nobody is happy. ._\
- johnisgood 1y agoTruthfully, I do not know the story behind it. If you do, feel free to share.
- johnisgood 1y agoOh by the way, check this out, this is one of the news in 2025b tzdata: # From Roozbeh Pournader (2025-03-18): # ... the exact time of Iran's transition from +0400 to +0330 ... was Friday # 1357/8/19 AP=1978-11-10. Here's a newspaper clip from the Ettela'at # newspaper, dated 1357/8/14 AP=1978-11-05, translated from Persian # (at https://w.wiki/DUEY): # Following the government's decision about returning the official time # to the previous status, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Energy # announced today: At the hour 24 of Friday 19th of Aban (=1978-11-10), # the country's time will be pulled back half an hour. From https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/asia#L1503 https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/asia#L1503. Pretty sure we can find a lot more oddities that are way worse.