FW: Corrections to latitudes/longitudes in zone.tab

[Mark Davis]

My apologies for the original Europe/Podgorica values: I think I'd
mistakenly supplied decimal degrees, not radix 60 as required.

Mark

On 10/31/06, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov>
wrote:
>
> I'm forwarding this message from Andy McDonald, who is not on the time
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> Thanks!
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>                                 --ado
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy McDonald [mailto:andy at stemhaus.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:29 AM
> To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: Corrections to latitudes/longitudes in zone.tab
>
> Hi,
>
> I've run across a couple of inaccurate latitudes/longitudes in tz's
> zone.tab (2006n):
>
>                   Approx true lat/long    zone.tab lat/long
> Europe/Jersey     +4912-00207             +4912-00237
> Europe/Podgorica  +4227+01916             +4247+01928
>
> Jersey perhaps looks like a typo.; Podgorica's latitude looks like a
> typo., but not the longitude.
>
> The corrected values come from playing with my Firefox time zone
> extension (http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/) and Google Earth,
> and are of course entirely subjective.
>
> Regards,
> Andy McDonald
>
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