Wirt

Hhrrmmppfff!

I don't believe your original statement of the problem indicated that one
had to be able to "step" across the border. And I don't think you indicated
that the 2 time zones had to abut -- only that the borders of the 2
countries had to abut.

I still like my answer better :-)

Regards,
JWP

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar
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Sent: 10/28/2002 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: OT:  AS400 Time Change

Michael (of Best Guess?) writes:

> Well my best guess is the tiny sliver of land where Afghanistan (UTC
+4:30)
>  touches China (UTC +8).  China has a policy of having the entire
country in
>  one time zone.  This assumes China goes on daylight savings, while
>  Afghanistan does not.

A silver cigar for Mike. His answer is closer than mine. The answer I
was
going to give was Kazakhstan, but lo and behold, I find on closer
inspection
that the relatively small country of Kazakhstan has three time zones
where,
as Michael states, China has only one for the entire country. Everyone
works
on Bejing time.

The 4 hour, 30 minute difference between Kazakhstan and China that I was
going to tout applies only to the western region of Kazakhstan, not the
eastern border where Kazakhstan abuts China, thus my answer is wrong.
The
relatively large Delta Airlines map that I was referencing only shows
one
time zone for all Kazakhstan, thus the bottom line is that Afghanistan
and
China have the greatest time difference in the world, 3 hours, 30
minutes,
neither of which I believe go on daylight savings time.

Nonetheless, it does go to prove that time travel is possible. In a few
places on Earth, in just a step or two, you can go forwards or backwards
in
time several hours.

Wirt Atmar

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