Re: UTC or Greenwich Mean Time QUTCOFFSET Question -- MIDRANGE-L

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How do the minutes come into play? I thought the world was divided into 24 one hour time zones. Are there smaller time zone divisions in some parts of the world? (Jeez, I guess I should get out more...)

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: UTC or Greenwich Mean Time QUTCOFFSET Question

At 01:50 AM 10/09/1999 -0500, you wrote:

The first character is either a plus ("+") or a minus ("-").

The next two characters represent the difference in hours, and may range from 00 to 24. The last two characters specify minutes, and may range from 00 to 59.

-0930 Marquises Island
-0330 Newfoundland

+0330 Teheran, Iran
+0430 Kabul, Afghanistan
+0530 Delhi, India
+0540 Katmandu, Nepal
+0630 Rangoon, Burma
+0930 Adelaide and Darwin, Australia

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