On 3/6/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snipped]
> The government decision will also put clocks in the island in line with
> Tamil Tiger rebels, de facto rulers of a seventh of Sri Lanka, who
> never adopted the original time change in their territory.

Some trivia related to Timezones [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#Trivia]

1. In terms of area, China is the largest country with only one time
zone (UTC+8), although before the Chinese Civil War in 1949 China was
separated into five time zones. The next largest country with only one
time zone is India (UTC+5:30). China also has the widest spanning time
zone.

2. Also Nepal has a time zone which is 15 minutes ahead of India.
AFAIK this was
done due to political reasons.

3. UTC 4:51 was used in Bombay until 1955 when it closed the gap of 39
minutes behind Indian Standard Time (UTC+5:30).

--> Vinayak H

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