[tz] Daylight time: Politics makes for strange time zones

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at systematicsw.ab.ca
Sun Nov 1 04:32:33 UTC 2015


http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/time-zones-daylight-time-1.3296797?cmp=rss
Perpetual daylight time, 30-minute offsets are some of the world's time-keeping quirks
Talks about Saskatchewan and other zones without DST; Newfoundland and other zones on 00:30 offsets; Europe's adoption of German time during WWII, and desire for a time change in Catalonia back to GMT, like Portugal.

Related links in sidebars and body links to
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/end-of-daylight-saving-time-2015-6-eye-opening-facts-1.1333086
which mentions Atikokan and health effects with a number of sidebar and body links to other articles; looks like it has been updated regularly since Mar 2013.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


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