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echo: fidonews
to: BJRN FELTEN
from: KURT WEISKE
date: 2019-12-01 09:43:00
subject: Re: ZMH

-=> Björn Felten wrote to Lee Lofaso <=-

 LL> Russia has 8 time zones.  Which one should apply?

 BF>    Strictly going by the latitudes, Norway should have five. But like
 BF> China and India they settle for just one. It kinda makes things much
 BF> easier...

I always wondered what that would be like, having the same time in a country 
be morning in one part and evening in the other part. Do you go by circadian 
time and wake/sleep by the sun or live and work on Moscow time?

Reminded me of the book "Eastern Standard Tribe" by Cory Doctorow.


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