[time-nuts] How can it be :05 in one place and :30 in another

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <4fdb424f0810252013l309068fcua957bdfc4dfe355e at mail.gmail.com>
            "Gretchen Baxter" <gretchendenisebaxter at gmail.com> writes:
: I am confused.
: 
: Why do they do that?  what is the benefit?

Better correspondence of local time to solar time when the population
centers of the time zones are located near the boundary of a time
zone...

Warner