Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude didn't change time zone, same MSK+5. New Russia map without DST.

[Paul Goyette]

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 17:22, David Patte <dpatte at relativedata.com>
> wrote:
> > But if such a suggestion started to be considered seriously, the
> following
> > three suggestions for further improvement immediately come to mind:
> > 1) The first zone at the date line should be called zone 0:00, not tz
> 1.
> > 2) To ease the conversion from longitudes, all geographic longitudes
> should
> > then be moved, at the same time, to the dateline, measuring all
> longitudes
> > as positive from 0, as is done for most other astronomical
> measurements.
> > 3) Finally, we should also mandate that all world clocks start to
> measure
> > time in arcseconds, arcminutes and degrees instead of seconds,
> minutes and
> > hours to insure that no one has to divide by 15 ever again. :)
> >
> > Sounds like way too big a change for the very minimal advantage of
> having
> > less negatively-number zones, though it might temporarily stimulate
> the
> > economy for mapmakers, clock makers, gps vendors, geography teachers,
> and
> > insurance companies, if that is the primary goal. :)
> 
> You'd also want to specify that the south pole is latitude 0 and the
> north pole latitude 180, if you want to get rid of negative numbers on
> maps and GPS devices.

None of which addresses the problems encountered by the fact
that the date line isn't a line at all, but has several zigs
and zags.

:)