From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 22:48:44 CDT
Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote:
> BTW, what is curious is that the way the US timezones work, even
> though Pacific Time is listed as being -08:00, a *majority* of the
> year it is actually -07:00, and same for the others with daylight
> savings time.
Interesting way of thinking about it. It was 50/50 until the rules were
changed in 1987.
In Europe the discrepancy is even greater than in the USA, by a week;
seven months for summer time, only five (including short February) for
standard time.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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