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Old April 12th 14, 07:18 PM posted to sci.astro
Dr J R Stockton[_194_]
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Default Daylight Saving Time - How To Explain It To The Average Citizen

In sci.astro message , Fri, 11
Apr 2014 16:09:51, Mike Dworetsky
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Jan Panteltje wrote:


We should move all the world to UTC and be done with it.


This works well if you are in England, France, Spain, Portugal, Benelux
countries, etc. It would work less well for countries further and
further from the Greenwich Meridian.


Are there any locations, other than in Brazil, where the date of a clock
change can be affected by the date of Easter Sunday?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Brazil.


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