Dave Rolsky schreef:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> 
> > > Can you change it so that the maximum offset is 24:00:00 and then check it
> > > in?
> >
> > There's no official limit on offsets are there?  I can envision some
> > small country declaring an offset of greater then 24hours.
> 
> You can?  That doesn't make much sense to me.  If it happens, we can
> change the code ;)

Cuba (-0500) was at some point planning to change to +1900, to be the
first country in the year 2000. If that would have happened, what do you
think Kiribati (+1200, the first country to celebrate 2000 in reality)
would have done? (They would have gone to +3600, of course; and perhaps
even change back to +1200 at noon, 1 Jan 2000: "celebrate the new
millennium twice!!!").

(source: Wall Street Journal 1996-01-22, via the tzdata mailing list
archive)

Eugene

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