"32 time zones"

[Bruce Tognazzini]

Try any (printed) atlas.  Or wait until the next century when computers
just barely begin to catch up with where printed matter was 300 years
ago.  Grepping indeed!

-Tog

> From ado at bossie.nci.nih.gov Tue Jun  8 06:40:56 1993
> To: amos at cs.huji.ac.il, tog at Eng, tz at bossie.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: "32 time zones"
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> 	Our society has created a fictional time system of 32 time zones
> 	(24 one-hour offsets and several more half-hour and three-quarter
> 	hour offsets).
> 		
> 		--Tognazzini, Bruce (tog at eng.sun.com):  "Tog on Interface:
> 		  The Myth of Precision", Sun World, volume 6, number 7
> 		  (June, 1993), page 100.
> 
> A grep in /usr/lib/zoneinfo/* on a SunOS 4.1.1 system failed to show up eight
> oddball time zones (see attached).  Does anyone know of the origin for the
> "32" time zones?
> 
> 				--ado
>