What is a time zone?
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Thu Feb 15 14:43:41 UTC 2001
David Keegel said:
> I think common usage outside this group is that a time zone has variable
> boundaries, and is something like the set of places which *currently*
> observe the same time (although perhaps US EST and CDT might be
> considered different time zones).
Change this to say "currently observe the same time and intend to do so for
the indefinite future" and you eliminate that problem.
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