[tz] Time(Winter-summer) setting discussions in Turkey and research about it

Alan Mintz alan.mintz at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 18:48:15 UTC 2021


On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:15 AM Paul Eggert via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> ... Using the Wikipedia list of countries by population[1], the ten
> most populous countries that do not observe daylight saving time are
> China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia,
> Japan, and Ethiopia, in that order.
>
> [1]
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population
>

Kind of a misleading statistic, though, since Indonesia straddles the
equator and much of Brazil, Nigeria, and Ethiopia are within 15 degrees
latitude, making DST unnecessary for them.
-- 
Alan Mintz <Alan.Mintz at gMail.com>
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