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#2 (permalink) Mon Nov 17, 2008 21:36 pm Time difference between Frankfurt and Bangalore 4.5 hours? |
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I recently found this out myself after I bought an "atomic" watch with world time. India, Iran, Afghanistan, central Australia and a few other places have this half-hour difference. Pretty Amazing is right!  |
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Diverhank I'm here quite often ;-)

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#3 (permalink) Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:58 am Time difference between Frankfurt and Bangalore 4.5 hours? |
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Hi Hank,
Do you happen to know why there is this strange half hour time difference with some central Asian countries? _________________ Test Of English for International Communication TOEIC Preparation & TOEIC Vocabulary |
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#4 (permalink) Tue Nov 18, 2008 22:59 pm Time difference between Frankfurt and Bangalore 4.5 hours? |
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Hi Torsten Good question...I can only guess that it was done to make sure that the sun is at its highest during noon time. Perhaps, in some cases, it's done just to be different Recently in 2007, Venezuela changed to a half-hour offset, making that the only country in America that has an offset. I also found out that Nepal has a 15 minute offset! Weird, huh? |
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Diverhank I'm here quite often ;-)

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