Talk:Time zone

So brazil adds an hour (daylight savings time) during whose summer? Dec/Jan summer, or the Northern hemisphere's summer?
~ender 2003-09-12 06:53:MST

So, uh, Spain has both UTC and UTC+1 time? At the same time, no less. How's that? ~Marnevel

Is Argentina UTC-4 (text) or UTC-3 (map)? Paul Beardsell 00:56, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

What about Universal Time Zones?

Someone smarter than me needs to incorporate elements from this article about the difference between Universal time zones and Local Civil time zones. And are things like "MSK - Moscow Time Zone" an internationally recognized designation? Saudi Arabia is in that zone, but I doubt they discuss Moscow much. Mackerm 22:30, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The referenced article has several errors, the major being that there is no international treaty concerning time zones. These 15° 'International Time Zones' were proposed by Fleming, but were assigned these letters only after WWII (Fleming used a different letter system). They may exist on the high seas--they definitely do not exist over land (I even doubt the 'military' explanation). Rather, each country specifies its own time zones as it sees fit. Furthermore, except for GMT (and UTC), I know of no legal standard time zone abbreviations. Even EST, EDT, etc. in the United States are customary only--the United States only uses full words in its time zone law: U.S. Law 15USC260-267 I'll consider adding something about this topic.
Joe Kress 05:02, 2004 Apr 20 (UTC)