My understanding is that Saudi Arabia is on solar time.

William

"Michael S. Klein" wrote:
> 
> > > Does anyone out there know how timezones work, in detail?
> > >
> > > more elusive.  Is everyone's local time always an integral number of hours
> > > offset from Greenwich, or can it be more complicated?
> 
>         [various responces indicating 1/2 hour & 1/4 hour offsets]
> 
> Worse still... There are zones whose legal definition of time was solar,
> although, I beleive there are no such current zones. To do timezones
> right, you need to handle historical changes.
> 
> -- Mike Klein

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