[time-nuts] How can it be :05 in one place and :30 in another

[Lux, James P]

Consider a country like India, which is a around 15 degrees of longitude
wide.  If you make the time zone on the half hour, then the entire country
can be on one time zone without sunrise/sunset times being too far out of
whack.

It IS nice to have noon occur roughly at solar noon.


On 10/25/08 8:13 PM, "Gretchen Baxter" <gretchendenisebaxter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am confused.
>
> Why do they do that?  what is the benefit?
>
>