America and Americans / Europeans

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:29 PM -0500 2/22/02, sagehen wrote:
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>>
>>As we learned when vacationing in NL last summer, Iceland keeps
>>Greenwich Time even though they're at 21deg 51min W longitude, putting
>>them theoretically one zone (almost two) behind Greenwich. (360 / 24
>>= 15deg / hr, and since Zone 0 is centered on the Zero Meridian the
>>first theoretical boundary is at 7deg 30min, and the next one at 22deg
>>30min.)
>>
>>-- Mark M.
>
>An even greater deviation from zoning by longitude is the
>8-hrs-ahead-of-GMT zone that Larry's time stamp was showing the other day.
>That zone stretches all the way across mainland China, covering more than
>50š.
>AM
>
And not just mainland China either.  I discovered, while performing
the surgery expertly dictated by Alice Faber, that the data/time
adjustment on my Mac had been set all these years for Taipei.  If I'd
only known, I could have requested that it deliver some good Chinese
food, but now I've reset it for New York time.

larry