That is very interesting, and I am staring at the precision that they decided in the conference: "5 hours, 53 minutes and 20 seconds" or "UTC+5:21:14". I'm only accustomed to timezones that are minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes off. But never down to secondes. Were there other time zones that were seconds off, and did they all get abolished?
Can you imagine if this had survived into the present, how difficult it might be to code against or the kinds of mistakes that would happen in the minute-precision assumptions we make.
Greenwich only got accepted as the global time meridian in 1884(?). Before that, countries would have their own national (or regional) standard times. E.g., France’s was based off Paris, which was not a whole number of minutes offset from Greenwich.
I have always wondered why the timezone of India is written as "Asia/Kolkata" instead of "Asia/Delhi", as Delhi is the capital.
Me as well as my company https://pinggy.io is located near Kolkata.
Can you imagine if this had survived into the present, how difficult it might be to code against or the kinds of mistakes that would happen in the minute-precision assumptions we make.