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Am I alone in finding the additional half hour time difference extremely confusing? I accept there has to be a time difference and 4 hours or 5 hours I could probably cope with but I get confused when I am told that play will resume after lunch at 20 to and that actually means 10 past.

I can only assume the answer lies in the fact that IST in itself is a compromise covering, as it does, a very substantial chunk of land, also in terms of longitude.

Would it not be possible for the powers that be to have the entire Indian sub-continent dragged 7.5 degrees east or west so that the populations of Europe can keep track of the cricket scores?

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  • It's ok if you happen to be in Newfoundland, as they are 3 1/2 hours behind London time, making it a straight eight hour difference.

    A nuisance otherwise, I'd concede.
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