<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 April 2015 at 20:28, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank" onclick="window.open(&#39;https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&amp;tf=1&amp;to=eggert@cs.ucla.edu&amp;cc=&amp;bcc=&amp;su=&amp;body=&#39;,&#39;_blank&#39;);return false;">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">the large distance between the areas covered by Pacific<br>
Standard Time and Pitcairn Standard Time make this very different<br>
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They are not different if one excludes political considerations and focuses on timekeeping considerations, which is what we ought to do here.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Politics aside, geographical considerations are also important here and seem to make this more unique.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And there are other examples involving nearby countries sharing abbreviations, e.g., Iraq sharing &quot;AST&quot; with Saudi Arabia, even though Iraq is not in Arabia.</blockquote></div><br>Thanks; this provides some context I was looking for.<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div></div>
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