[LEAPSECS] Trying a different angle

[Rob Seaman]

> Do it really matter /what/ timezone you use in Greenland?


According to the CIA factbook, it matters enough that the long but  
narrow Greenland is divided into 4 timezones, with the capital UTC -  
3.  The 56,000 residents enjoy the many benefits of daylight  
saving :-)  Greenland has a home-rule government.  It withdrew from  
the EU due to a dispute over fishing quotas.

As described by Jared Diamond's "Collapse", the economy of the  
original colony was agrarian.  The settlers did not fish, as  
remarkable as that seems.  To the extent that timekeeping was  
necessary, that timekeeping would have referenced the local sun,  
whether mean or apparent.