Europe pushing for lunar time zone

Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone by iainmerrick on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:45AM (#34993491)

Is there a different single letter per time zone band? That’s almost elegant if so (as long as you ignore the many places with idiosyncratic time zones).

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Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone by kubanczyk on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:34AM (#34996120)

I didn't know what a time zone band was, but I was able to find out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Zone_(band)

But seriously, in DST world, the numerical offsets (-6, ...) are confusing enough, adding yet another "simpler" notation would only increase confusion.

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Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone by iainmerrick on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:29AM (#35007516)

I did say _almost_ elegant...! I just hadn't noticed that the 26 Roman letters are just enough for 24 hour-wide timezones, which seems like a nice coincidence, so I wondered if anyone had tried it. There are way more than 24 different zones in practice, of course.

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Re:Europe pushing for lunar time zone by yencabulator on Thursday March 02, 2023 @10:38AM (#34996989)

Unfortunately, there's too many timezones for just A-Z, but nautical time does make an attempt. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets for the funny markings they decided to use when they ran out of letters.

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