In message <9306081338.AA10015@bossie.nci.nih.gov> you write:
Our society has created a fictional time system of 32 time zones (24 one-hour offsets and several more half-hour and three-quarter hour offsets).
--Tognazzini, Bruce (tog@eng.sun.com): "Tog on Interface: The Myth of Precision", Sun World, volume 6, number 7 (June, 1993), page 100.
A grep in /usr/lib/zoneinfo/* on a SunOS 4.1.1 system failed to show up eight oddball time zones (see attached). Does anyone know of the origin for the "32" time zones?
--ado
Among my accumulation of time zone abbreviations I find: GMT + ACDT 10:30 Australian Central Daylight ACST 9:30 Australian Central Standard CADT 10:30 Central Australian Daylight CAST 9:30 Central Australian Standard CST 9:30 North/South Australian Central Standard HDT -9:30 Hawaiian Daylight (until 1947) HST -10:00 Hawaiian Standard (-10:30 until 1947) IDT 4:30 Iran Daylight IST 3:30 Iran Standard IST 5:30 Indian Standard IT 3:30 Iran JT 7:30 Java MT 8:30 Moluccas (obsolete) NDT -2:30 Newfoundland Daylight NFT -3:30 Newfoundland NST 8:30 North Sumatran (obsolete) NST -3:30 Newfoundland Standard SADT 10:30 South Australian Daylight SAST 9:30 South Australian Standard I think there are at least 8 separate half-hour zones there, if that's what you mean by oddball time zones. I don't know about any zones with three-quarter hour offsets, but would like to know what they are. Vic Abell