On Fri 2013-08-30T11:34:25 -0700, Guy Harris hath writ:
Yes, but tzdb time zones don't necessarily have *an* LMT value for a particular "proleptic UTC" value; the LMT value may differ depending on where you are.
News from 1945 about the US prior to the 1883 adoption of railroad time: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19451005&id=Sh4aAAAAIBAJ&sjid... In Kansas City each of the leading jewelers furnished his own "standard time," and no two of these standards agreed. Sometimes the range was as much as 20 minutes. Each jeweler had his own customers who set their watches by his regulator and were willing to wager on the correctness of his time. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m