There are countries that have changed which side of the International Date Line they claim. As recently at 2011 Somoa switched. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line

Now that is the sort of thing that drives programmers nuts.

I actually had to deal with this exact problem two days ago. I was baffled because the timezone was being listed as UTC+14, and that places like Kiribati crossed the date line. UTC+14 didn't exist until the date line was crossed.

I have an app where users are running it while crossing time zones. :-(

Just a quick note: no need to use a url shortener for that.

unobfuscated link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY "The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile"

You could really feel his frustration, very interesting and entertaining.

I love Tom Scott's computerphile videos. His frustration grows over a few videos; his videos about the difficulties of internationalization[1] and the problems of electronic voting[2] are even crazier.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Thanks, these are great.

That is awesome.