[LEAPSECS] h2g2
    Daniel R. Tobias 
    dan at tobias.name
       
    Thu Sep  2 23:47:23 EDT 2010
    
    
  
On 2 Sep 2010 at 9:58, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> If it is getting light or dark too early or late, people will just
> change the time zones.  This is a very common occurrence, and one
> that will happen naturally before it is midnight with the sun over
> head. 
So you'd like to end up with an even more chaotically convoluted time 
zone map than we already have?  Eventually, there'd have to be 
offsets from UTC of 36 or 48 hours, way beyond the theoretical +12 
and -12 (already exceeded by a few hours in some spots) of a saner 
time zone map.
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