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@@ -963,35 +963,6 @@ Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - -00 1957 Jan 29 3:00 - +03 -# Vostok, Antarctica -# -# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 -# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): -# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP -# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same -# time as Moscow, Russia. -# -# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): -# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is -# what they had to say about time there: -# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) -# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was -# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead -# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The -# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." -# -# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): -# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it -# in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local -# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this -# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean -# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks -# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time -# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess +06. -# -Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - -00 1957 Dec 16 - 6:00 - +06 - # Yemen # Milne says 2:59:54 was the meridian of the saluting battery at Aden, # and that Yemen was at 1:55:56, the meridian of the Hagia Sophia. |