From: jock@soccer.com
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:59:36 +0000 (UTC), John Levine
wrote:
>>Ha! Try dealing with Brazil. Our summer is their winter. From most of
>>Oregon to most of Brazil is a 4 hour difference in July and a 6 hour
>>difference in December.
>
>Well, yeah, and most other countries in the southern temperate zone,
>including Paraguay, Uruguay, Australia, and New Zealand. Argentina
>being Argentina uses the same time as eastern Brazil, even though
>they're geographically at least an hour farther west, but no daylight
>time.
Argentina in the past has used daytlight time; I'd not observed that
it stopped in 2010, so was a bit puzzled when visiting this past March
that the time was the same as Chile which was on daylight. Uruguay
uses the same standard time zone as AR, but was on daylight so we
(cruise ship) jumped ahead an hour for the day in Montevideo, then
back again for the stopover in Puerto Madryn in Patagonia.
>
>If you want confusing, try Kirimati (Christmas Island) where the time
>zone is GMT+14. That is, it's the same time as Hawaii and Tahiti, but
>a day later. Or (Western) Samoa is GMT+13, while nearby American
>Samoa is GMT-11, again same time, a day later.
The government in Apia decided to 'move' to the western side of the
dateline several years ago because of the State of Samoa's ties with
New Zealand and Australia.
As for wackiest alignments, take a look at Russia's time zones; they
revised them a few years back, but the Russian Far east especially is
quite weird.
Khabarovsk/Vladivostok are UT + 11 year round, while Japan is UT + 9,
even though the Russian krais could easily be an hour 'behind' Japan.
I have photos of central KH I took ~9.30 am in late June which look by
the light to be something akin to ~5.30 am. Given that KH is
basically the same latitude as Vancouver (49 degrees), their winter
daylight hours must be very interesting.
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