[jhugo]

India manages to deal with a fractional offset from UTC, as well as several other countries. It’s really not that big a deal.

[netsharc]

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?

[madcaptenor]

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.

[rational_indian]

Regular people dont't have world clocks. Only people who need to care about this do.

[Tagbert]

and that 30 minute offset makes quick mental timezone math doubly hard and error prone. What is the benefit of merging timezones?