Time zone trivia

[Bruce Lilly]

Hello,

ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2001c.tar.gz
file "africa" reports that:

# From Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
# from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 minutes.

However, file "australasia" gives:

Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 -     LMT     1901
                        -10:40  -       LINT    1979 Oct # Line Is Time
                        -10:00  -       LINT    1995
                         14:00  -       LINT

Unless I missed something, -10:40 isn't a multiple of
15 minutes, and 1979 is more recent than 1972 (the
Republic of Kiribati is a country).

A relatively minor point...

Best regards,
  Bruce Lilly