On a point of order, there are some time zones (e.g., Newfoundland & Labrador) that are less than a full-hour increment off GMT.

Alternately, there is the Bill Bryson interpretation (from his reading of a bit of another author's book on Australia in In a Sunburned Country): "About 2,800 milligrams talking there, I would say."

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