On 06-Mar-06, at 5:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
The move will reverse a 1996 decision to move the clocks forward to
reduce electricity consumption in the evenings, pleasing politically
powerful Buddhist monks and astrologers who never accepted the
original
change.
The article is muddled on prior changes. If I read correctly:
Pre-1996: UTC+0530
May 1996: UTC+0630
End-1996: UTC+0600
Apr 2006: UTC+0530
Is this correct? That is one indecisive country!
Besides, if their original "electricity consumption in the evenings"
reasoning has any basis, then we'll be hit too as eastern India gets
progressively more advanced.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda
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