[tz] What is LMTZ?

Alan Barrett apb at cequrux.com
Wed Sep 18 14:29:11 UTC 2013


On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Lester Caine wrote:
>> You often mention "LMTZ".  What does that term mean?
>
> It was my attempt at separating the early LMT times everywhere, 
> and the early standardisations to an LMT based 'zone'

What is an LMT based zone?  Zones are geographical areas, whereas 
LMT is associated with points.

> Naively I assumed that would be an easier transition than it 
> obviously actually is? So we just move the switch-over point 
> from 'location' based time to timezones?

Sorry, I am still too confused about your terminology to try 
answering that.

--apb (Alan Barrett)



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