Well, so much for my books are better than computers theory. Still and all, I can think of no atlas that would manage to tell one person there were 24 zones and another person there were 40 zones. We have a long way to go not only in information storage, but in responsive retrieval. -Tog

From amos@cs.huji.ac.il Tue Jun 8 07:02:26 1993 To: ado@bossie.nci.nih.gov (Arthur David Olson) Subject: Re: "32 time zones" Cc: tog@Eng, tz@bossie.nci.nih.gov Content-Length: 579 X-Lines: 13

Well, you didn't grep hard enough; I just did:

grep '[.H][0-9]' /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/usno1989

And got 11 part-hour zones, 3 of which apply DST which can be also counted as separate timezones; plus Russia's East Siberia zone which is 13 hours ahead of GMT and 14 with DST. In total, we have 24+12+4 or 40 time zones, 36 of which are in use somewhere at any given time.

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