Joshua Hoblitt schreef: > > 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!!!"). > > I've actually been to Kiribati and at least Fanning island is +1400. :)
I didn't look up the offset for Kiribati, actually, so thanks for the correction. Offsets of more than 12 hours aren't that strange; countries near the international date line can choose on which side of that line they are. I wouldn't be surprised if some parts of Alaska have been about +1530 at some point. Offsets of 24 hours are something else entirely, of course. In the discussions on abandoning the leap second, one solution was to stop having them, to collect the time difference until it was 1 hour, and to adjust the timezones (and not UTC). So Greenwich time would become -0100 (summer time +0000), Central European Time +0000 (CEST +0100) etcetera. After 24 of these adjustments, Greenwich would be at -2400, and British time would again agree with UTC time; except that the dates would be wrong. Eugene
