April 4, 2015
3:49 a.m.
On 3 April 2015 at 20:28, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
the large distance between the areas covered by Pacific
Standard Time and Pitcairn Standard Time make this very different
They are not different if one excludes political considerations and focuses on timekeeping considerations, which is what we ought to do here.
Politics aside, geographical considerations are also important here and seem to make this more unique.
And there are other examples involving nearby countries sharing abbreviations, e.g., Iraq sharing "AST" with Saudi Arabia, even though Iraq is not in Arabia.
Thanks; this provides some context I was looking for. -- Tim Parenti