Originally Posted by
mvtm
Please don't tell me. I've been living with this nightmare the past few years. GMT -4:30? C'mon who uses that? So so weird time zone, everyone is different than us and apart from all the changes he made to the country's name and symbols, this was one- one of the most bothersome changes we still carry to date - (apart from the blown up economy). *Cough*

Well, India is GMT +5:30...
I don't know the history of that, but I'd guess it's a result of wanting to keep the entire country in one time zone and GMT+5 and GMT+6 resulted in some weird sunrise/sunset times at the eastern/western edges. Not something that would be relevant for VZ.