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From: mark@bdblues.inria.fr (Mark James)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: International time zones
Keywords: Mormons in Tonga; weird time zones.
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Date: 31 Aug 89 12:37:24 GMT
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In article <26808@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes:
>
>There is indeed a sizable Mormon minority in Tonga.  However, Mormons
>do not observe the Sabbath on Saturday; our day of rest and worship is
>Sunday.  [...]
>Are you, perhaps, thinking of the Seventh-Day Adventists?

Of course I was; my apologies to Mormons.

BTW, now that Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia seem to have aligned their
time zones on Greenwich half-hour boundaries, this leaves, as my
nominee for the weirdest time zone, Nepal; they use Z+05:40 (or at
least they did as recently as 1984).

And on the subject of Z+13 zones:  Could this be the missing `J' zone?
(-;

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