Capitals
Alex LIVINGSTON
alex at agsm.edu.au
Wed Oct 4 06:32:44 UTC 2000
At 00:20 +0200 2000-09-28, Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:
> > Garrett Wollman:
>> Many time-zone regions do not have a `capital' of any sort. To give
>> just one example, the time zone `America/Los_Angeles' has three
>> `capitals': Sacramento, Salem, and Olympia. None of these are obvious
>> choices. `America/Chicago' has even more possibilities.
>
>Dunno, the book "The world almanac and book of facts", World Almanac Books,
>1998, gives on page 542 a list of US state capitals with Sacramento as the
>only capital of California, Springfield (not Chicago) as capital of
>Illinois, etcetera. Good maps will also show the one and only capital of
>states.
Yes, the only capital of California, but America/Los_Angeles covers
(at least the major part of) the states of Oregon and Washington as
well (and parts of Canada and Mexico?). America/Chicago I'm pretty
sure _excludes_ nearly all of Illinois, including Springfield (if
not, then it applies only to most of Illinois).
--Alex
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