For what it's worth, CLDR is tracking this issue at https://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/9716 — my current thinking is to have something called a "time cycle", but it would be applied on top of the time zone calculation. Supporting it if it were UTC-3 has other problems. I think it should be considered a localization and not a time zone issue. Steven On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 3:14 PM David Patte <dpatte@relativedata.com> wrote:
But if you ask them in English, they say '12 o'clock'. If they wear a watch, it uses 'English time', and is set with midnight/noon at twelve. But they subtract 6 from 'English time' time when speaking Swahili and their own tribal languages.
On 2018-09-12 18:03, David Patte wrote:
The system is also used in Kenya, Ethiopia's neighbour. If you ask anyone in Swahili what time lunch is, they say 'six o'clock'.
On 2018-09-12 17:41, Steve Allen wrote:
On Wed 2018-09-12T16:58:39-0400 Arthur David Olson hath writ:
Per the "Theory" file: "...the world is partitioned into regions whose clocks all agree..." So at least at the moment, the goal is to reflect what clocks say the time is rather than what people say the time is. That goal is, of course, subject to change. It would be useful to know if privately set clocks and wristwatches commonly use this 6 hour offset. If that is the case then it seems that Ethiopia is much the same as Asia/Urumqi
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