Zone -12

[Paul Eggert]

[I'm forwarding this from Mark Brader <msb at vex.net>, who is not on the
list; please direct replies accordingly.]

Date: Tue,  1 May 2007 19:20:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: msb at vex.net (Mark Brader)

The Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC-12 claims,
without citing a source, that Baker Island and Howland Island use
zone -12 (and the wording suggests that they may be the only places
to do so).  The tz database says "no information" about their time
zone.  Any idea where this -12 might have came from?

Both sources agree that the islands are uninhabited (although it seems
that the US Fish and Wildlife Service makes occasional "visits"), so
the question is of little practical importance, but I ask anyway.
-- 
Mark Brader         "...there are other means of persuasion
msb at vex.net          besides killing and threatening to kill."
Toronto                        --Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon