Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: LSE conference call | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:26:22 +0100 (BST) |
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> Last week I went to Arizona from New York. It went like this: Sunday > morning 1hr forward for DST. Sunday later, 2hr back for central timezone. > Sunday later 1hr more back, Arizona doesn't do DST, except... Monday, 1hr > forward again, the Navaho nation in AZ does do DST. At that point I set my > watch to GMT and told local time by the sun! Oh well, lots of brewpubs, > it's always time for a beer.
Ah, but assuming that you had a compass to calculate the local time offset, (ignoring DST), anyway, you could have used that to calculate the _local_ time without looking at your watch at all ;-). However, you wouldn't be able to calculate the timezone you were in.
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