On Thu 2018-10-11T12:12:21-0400 Tim Parenti hath writ:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 10:49, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
To my mind this is more a localization preference than an independent time zone.
…which, again, is why I suggested specifying that tz starts numbering the hours from midnight.
"midnight" has no meaning at South Pole station, nor on the ISS, and very little meaning at McMurdo other than how tired the supply crews from Christchurch are likely to be. At those places the hour 00 designates when the calendar day and date change. The concept of midnight is itself a localization of us temperate zone folks, and the word "midnight" has no place in tz other than in a footnote explaining the origin of the simplifications codified in the underlying tz model of time and date. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 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