| From: | Curd Reinert <Curd(dot)Reinert(at)ppi(dot)de> |
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| To: | Karsten Düsterloh <pg-bugs-ml(at)tal(dot)de> |
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| Subject: | Re: Strange time zone +00:53:28 |
| Date: | 2013-05-10 13:08:21 |
| Message-ID: | OFD3976F87.F787752A-ONC1257B67.00473B00-C1257B67.00482D32@ppi.de |
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Karsten Düsterloh <pg-bugs-ml(at)tal(dot)de> wrote
> hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> > Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr
> The question remains, though, where this special value comes from ?
That was probably the local time at Berlin, with 12:00 the moment when the
sun was highest. With the advent of the railways, time started to get
unified. Railways in Prussia used Berlin time from 1848 up to 1893, when
the time was changed by law:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_betreffend_die_Einf%C3%BChrung_einer_einheitlichen_Zeitbestimmung
http://zeitzonen.net/html/geschichte.html
Best regards,
Curd
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