Consider a country like India, which is a around 15 degrees of longitude wide. If you make the time zone on the half hour, then the entire country can be on one time zone without sunrise/sunset times being too far out of whack.
It IS nice to have noon occur roughly at solar noon. On 10/25/08 8:13 PM, "Gretchen Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am confused. > > Why do they do that? what is the benefit? > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
