International Date Line, international waters

[John Cowan]

Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:

> Is all this information useful or too silly to talk about?

Not at all!  Now we know what the compatibility timezones in Etc/*
are good for: computers at sea.  When you sail west across 75 E.,
you change your TZ variable from Etc/GMT+6 to Etc/GMT+5.

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