From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Nobody  wrote:   
   >On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:59:36 +0000 (UTC), John Levine  wrote:   
      
   >>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.   
      
   I'd already given the American Somoa versus Somoa example, a day apart.   
   It's interesting, but one would suspect that American Somoa may have   
   similar ties to Australia and New Zealand and perhaps the International   
   Date Line should be further east. I don't really know.   
      
   >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.   
      
   At one time, Stalin put substantial parts of the country on Moscow   
   time, which was absolutely outrageous.   
      
   >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.   
      
   So, negative double daylight time?   
      
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