On 2011 Sep 20, at 04:15, Ian Batten wrote:
> So why aren't all those exotic investigations necessary when
> countries change timezones, which happens with monotonous regularity?
It's a matter of representation. In that case the offset is
1) obvious to any human and customary already for a century
2) completely handled by the tz folks in the zoninfo code and database
Arbitary offsets between civil time and the underlying representation
are a solved problem. Furthermore, Arthur David Olson has managed
the sociology of creating a civil time community which is itself
civil. I think we could learn several things from them.
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