On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:58:42 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > >3 minutes off a hour? Usually set to a quarter or half hour offset. >Here's the exceptions in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200:44 Monrovia Liberia was >-00:43:08 then -00:44. > ... Until about a century ago that sort of thing was quite conventional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time#North_America
... at that time, a time zone was about a day's travel. Consolidation of time zones is overdue. --gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN