India manages to deal with a fractional offset from UTC, as well as several other countries. It’s really not that big a deal.
That makes me wonder of the little adaptions they need, that we Minute-Zero-ians ;) don't notice... do many Indian desktops have world clocks, for example?
Regular people dont't have world clocks. Only people who need to care about this do.
I just had a look through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets, because I thought it was just India and some obscure little islands - but some fairly substantial countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka) also have non-whole-hour time zones.
and that 30 minute offset makes quick mental timezone math doubly hard and error prone. What is the benefit of merging timezones?
The EU is big enough and the CPU in your watch is fast enough that it won’t matter.
> CPU in your watch
I'm much more concerned about the one in my head.
But more work for programmers
tzdata is a thing
As if DST isn't enough work - it messes up the linearity of time.