On Tuesday 2023-12-19 11:04 -0800, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
-# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): -# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is -# what they had to say about time there: -# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) -# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was -# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead -# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The -# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT."
One observation about this 22-year-old quote: New Zealand (then and now) observed summer time for roughly half of the year, so "which is 12 hours ahead of GMT" was only correct for the southern hemisphere winter; in the summer New Zealand was 13 hours ahead. If the observation of a 6 hour difference between McMurdo and Vostok was in the southern hemisphere summer while New Zealand was on summer time, that observation could be consistent with Vostok observing UTC+7 at the time. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron https://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)