[tz] Ethiopia local time
Tim Parenti
tim at timtimeonline.com
Thu Oct 4 22:13:56 UTC 2018
To bring this back, then, to a recognition of the potential differences in
how the hours are counted, we should probably expand the text in theory
slightly to specify that tz counts hours under the assumption that 00
represents midnight.
Proposed patch attached.
--
Tim Parenti
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 02:37, Philip Paeps <philip at trouble.is> wrote:
> On 2018-09-13 06:25:41 (+0200), Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> > admin at afocha.com said:
> >> Thanks for the replies! The time is not adjusted for the exact
> >> sunrise
> >> of each day, but rather consistently applied as -6:00 on East Africa
> >> Standard Time. In the context of Ethiopia, this adjustment is
> >> widely
> >> used in business and government activities.
> >
> > When does the date change? In the middle of the night or around dawn?
>
> According to friends from Kenya: the date changes at "6 o'clock at
> night": so at midnight EAT.
>
> Philip
>
> --
> Philip Paeps
> Senior Reality Engineer
> Ministry of Information
>
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