[LEAPSECS] h2g2

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 2 Sep 2010 at 7:56, Ian Batten wrote:


> I'm slightly surprised that no-one has suggested adopting the Indian  

> solution (UTC+4h30m), which is ideal for political areas that are  

> about 30 degrees east to west, and switching the EU to UTC+30m (plus,  

> or not, daylight saving in both cases).


Those half-hour time zones are even more confusing than the regular 
kind.  One that I could never understand is the one in Australia 
that's at a half-hour offset when the other two zones in that country 
are whole hour offsets from UTC.  It actually looks, on a map, like 
that middle zone would better reflect solar time by using the whole 
hour between the other two zones, so why did they choose the half 
hour offset?


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