Re: Strange time zone +00:53:28 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Curd Reinert
Subject Re: Strange time zone +00:53:28
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Msg-id OFD3976F87.F787752A-ONC1257B67.00473B00-C1257B67.00482D32@ppi.de
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In response to Re: Strange time zone +00:53:28  (Karsten Düsterloh <pg-bugs-ml@tal.de>)
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Karsten D=FCsterloh <pg-bugs-ml@tal.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=20
unified. Railways in Prussia used Berlin time from 1848 up to 1893, when=20
the time was changed by law:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz=5Fbetreffend=5Fdie=5FEinf%C3%BChrung=5F=
einer=5Feinheitlichen=5FZeitbestimmung
http://zeitzonen.net/html/geschichte.html

Best regards,

Curd

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