America/Sitka LMT bug

Zefram zefram at fysh.org
Sat Oct 1 14:05:05 UTC 2011


(I sent this a week ago but it seems to have been lost.)

I noticed this recent addition to the database:

|Zone America/Sitka      -14:58:47 -    LMT     1867 Oct 18
|                        -9:01:13 -     LMT     1900 Aug 20 12:00
|                        -8:00  -       PST     1942
...

For local mean time to jump by 5.6 hours, implying that the city jumped
89 degrees to the east, would be a neat trick.  Obviously the first offset
is meant to be +14:58:47, and the city jumped by 24 hours or 360 degrees,
crossing the IDL.

-zefram



More information about the tz mailing list