On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
David Patte <dpatte@relativedata.com> writes:
I believe a navigator, sailing to an island, would like to know its recomended timezone, without having to prove it has any people currently living on the island first.
Why? Of what possible use is the "local time" of an uninhabited island? What, *specifically*, would the navigator use that time to do?
Time zones are fundamentally about coordination with other people;
Exactly. http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-May/017817.html May 12 Tobias Conradi asked: "If two ships enter territorial waters of HM would the Olson-Eggert-IANA time zone database give them advice for how to set their clocks?" -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/