FW: Longitude/Latitude to TIME zone

[Alan Pritchard]

I'm sorry, but this just not true, and is very misleading.

Longitude is, at best, only a /very/ broad indicator of the time zone. If your message was true, then you (in Australia) would not have the 
Broken Hill situation, and SA & NT would be on +9 (and not +8:30).

The actual pattern of time zones is fundamentally based on countries and provinces. In fact, in real-life time zone terms, I think that I 
would go so far as to say that the 15 degree boundaries serve no useful purpose whatsoever.

Best wishes
Alan Pritchard
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Muhammad Safeer [SMTP:msafeer at khi.compol.com]
> > Sent:	Thursday, June 01, 2000 7:47 AM
> > To:	tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
> > Subject:	Longitute/Latitute to TIME zone
> >
> > Is there any formula to convert Longitute/Heading to time zone.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Muhammad Safeer.
> 
> Muhammad,
> 
> I'm not sure what "heading" has to do with it. Is that the direction in
> which travel is proceeding? If so, it doesn't affect your "time zone". 
> Only
> longitude affects that. You can calculate your actual mean-solar-time
> offset from Greenwich in hours simply by dividing your longtude in 
> degrees
> by 15. For longitudes east the answer is in hours ahead of Greenwich and
> for longitudes west the answer is in hours behind Greenwich. If you 
> want to
> calculate the nearest whole-hour time zone offset, you can simply round 
> the
> answer from the previous calculation to the nearest hour. For example, I
> live and work at longitude 151 degrees and about 15 minutes east. That
> means the time by the sun here is 10 hours and about 5 minutes ahead of
> Greenwich. The nearest whole-hour time zone offset is thus 10 hours 
> ahead
> of Greenwich.
> 
> --Alex
> 
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