[LEAPSECS] it's WP7A week in Geneva

[Rob Seaman]

Tony Finch wrote:


> India is a prominent example of a half hour timezone offset.

>

> (Sorry for straying off topic.)


Indeed.  I reset the second clock on my phone to the timezone of New  
Delhi when my daughter had a semester in Dharamsala.  It's been a  
couple of years and I've never set it back.

It is precisely the fact of a international civil timescale that makes  
the timezone system work.  In return, the many timezones and numerous  
special cases represent constraints on the common underlying standard  
to better track mean solar time.

(Not off topic at all.)

Rob