Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UTC-15:56


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 00:21, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

UTC-15:56

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According to the edit history, article has been nominated for speedy deletion as a hoax, but was declined. Hoax tag currently is on the article. Setting aside that matter, the article appears to fail WP:GNG. Does not appear to be a good candidate for a redirect to another time zone article. Delete as non notable. Safiel (talk) 19:43, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete It is not a hoax, since the solar time of Manila was actually Greenwich-15:56 when the Philippines used Mexican date. (Manila is at 121.0°E=GMT+8:04 and GMT-15:56 before 1844). The source timeanddate.com is reliable, but previously the article said that the entire Philippines used this timezone which timeanddate.com didn't claim. So the deletion justification is non-notability because every place used its own time. Actually it would be kind of interesting to keep an article about the westernmost time that ever existed, which is something like UTC-16:01, not UTC-15:56. But it is best to keep that info in Philippine Standard Time.--BIL (talk) 21:26, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete The claim of UTC-15:56 being a "time zone" is what matters to be a hoax. Without telegraph, you can't have standard time. Without railroad, you don't need standard time. History of time (or date) in the Philippines is notable for the International Date Line article. If you want the furthest back solar time, Palawan or even Northern Borneo is where you'll find it, but that will be a lot of research for no justifiable notability. (The Spanish would keep American date. The Portuguese, Dutch or British would keep Asian date. But who cared about the exact hour and minute?) HkCaGu (talk) 04:22, 7 January 2017 (UTC)


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