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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby adyniz » December 1st, 2009, 8:21 pm

Yeah, you are right Max :D .
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby Maxedge » December 1st, 2009, 9:51 pm

West Punjab if I am not wrong?

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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby Prongs » December 2nd, 2009, 1:34 pm

That is obvious since Pak is on the west side. lol
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby adyniz » December 2nd, 2009, 2:12 pm

Hey buddy, what is the time difference between India and Srilanka?
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby DP-NiSh » December 2nd, 2009, 2:16 pm

None, they both use same timezone.
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby adyniz » December 2nd, 2009, 2:27 pm

Oh, thanks for the info.
What about bangladesh?
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby Prongs » December 2nd, 2009, 2:57 pm

Sri Lanka is exactly under our country that is whyt the use IST too, although they call it SST. And Bangladesh: I don't know. Must be the same.
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby DP-NiSh » December 2nd, 2009, 3:00 pm

adyniz wrote:Oh, thanks for the info.
What about bangladesh?

Bangladesh is 0.5 hrs ahead of India during Winter, and 1.5 hrs ahead during Summer.
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby Prongs » December 2nd, 2009, 3:03 pm

Eh? They should be behind us according to the longitudes.
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby DP-NiSh » December 2nd, 2009, 3:26 pm

*cough.. and how so? India uses the 82.5° E.. Bangladesh uses 90.
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Re: OffTopic split | Of Geography & Timezones -via Intro Lord Pr

Postby Prongs » December 2nd, 2009, 3:57 pm

But they are surrounded by us completely! btw What's this thread change.
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Re: OffTopic split | Of Geography & Timezones -via Intro Lord Pr

Postby DP-NiSh » December 2nd, 2009, 4:48 pm

Surrounded in the far east.. if you aren't aware then India's timezone is inaccurate to be used for the whole of India.. Because it is so vast and stretches from GMT +5 that Pakistan follows (where Mumbai is) upto GMT +6 that Bangladesh follows. The sun rises 2 hrs earlier in the East than Gujarat in the West. That's why we use the longitude that is at the center.

Wikipedia wrote:The country's east–west distance of more than 2,000 km (1,200 mi) covers over 28 degrees of longitude, resulting in the sun rising and setting almost two hours earlier on India's eastern border than in the Rann of Kutch in the far west. Inhabitants of the north–eastern states have to advance their clocks with the early sunrise and avoid the extra consumption of energy after daylight hours.


Back during the British era, we did have 3 timezones, one for Kolkata, one for Mumbai, and one in Madras that railways used. But too many timezones are confusing atleast for most of the illiterate population of India (unlike USA where you have 5 timezones), so we only adopted one.
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Re: OffTopic split | Of Geography & Timezones -via Intro Lord Pr

Postby Prongs » December 2nd, 2009, 5:00 pm

All right, thanks,
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Re: Introducing The Lord Prongs !

Postby adyniz » December 2nd, 2009, 6:00 pm

DP-NiSh wrote:
adyniz wrote:Oh, thanks for the info.
What about bangladesh?

Bangladesh is 0.5 hrs ahead of India during Winter, and 1.5 hrs ahead during Summer.

Wow, same here (two timings).
Pakistan is 0.5 hours backward of India in WINTER (For six months) and 0.5 hours ahead of India in Summer (for 6 months).
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Re: OffTopic split | Of Geography & Timezones -via Intro Lord Pr

Postby DP-NiSh » December 2nd, 2009, 6:54 pm

See? Almost all the advanced countries follow Daylight Savings Time! I reckon it's time India gets one too! :evil:
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