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Analysis of posts to comp.lang.c
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Total posts considered: 1,017 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Feb 6 20:08:11 2010
Latest article: Sat Feb 13 20:04:04 2010
Original articles: 36, replies: 981
Total size of posts: 3,240,703 bytes (3,164K) (3.09M)
Average 145 articles per day, 0.44 MB per day, 3,186 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,348 KB bodies: 1,816 KB
Body text - quoted: 790 KB, original: 770 KB = 49.37%, sigs: 248 KB
Total number of posters: 145, average 22,349 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 66, average 49,101 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 34

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 107
2: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 97
3: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 49
4: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 34
5: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 33
6: santosh <santo...@gmail.com>................................ : 32
7: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 29
8: James Kanze <james...@gmail.com>............................ : 21
9: Andrew Poelstra <apoe...@localhost.localdomain>.............. : 19
10: Arved Sandstrom <dce...@hotmail.com>.......................... : 18
11: Michael Foukarakis <electr...@gmail.com>................... : 17
12: Francois Grieu <fgr...@gmail.com>.............................. : 17
13: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 16
14: Eric Sosman <eso...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 16
15: Phred Phungus <Ph...@example.invalid>.......................... : 15
16: Phil Carmody <thefatphi...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 15
17: Tor Rustad <bwz...@wvtqvm.vw>.................................. : 15
18: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 14
19: Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com>.................................... : 13
20: la...@ludens.elte.hu (Ersek, Laszlo)........................... : 13

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Top 20 posters by avg. article size in bytes
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1: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 6316
2: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 5219
3: happytoday <ehabaz...@gmail.com>............................ : 4821
4: James Kuyper <james...@verizon.net>......................... : 3964
5: Arved Sandstrom <dce...@hotmail.com>.......................... : 3922
6: "James" <n...@spam.invalid>...................................... : 3746
7: blm...@myrealbox.com <blm...@myrealbox.com>.................... : 3731
8: Brian <co...@mailvault.com>..................................... : 3670
9: santosh <santo...@gmail.com>................................ : 3495
10: Willem <wil...@stack.nl>....................................... : 3460
11: William Ahern <wil...@wilbur.25thandClement.com>.............. : 3425
12: Lew <no...@lewscanon.com>...................................... : 3396
13: James Kanze <james...@gmail.com>............................ : 3363
14: Phred Phungus <Ph...@example.invalid>.......................... : 3254
15: Moi <ro...@invalid.address.org>................................. : 3237
16: idon...@email.com............................................. : 3216
17: Richard <rgr...@gmail.com>.................................... : 3176
18: Francois Grieu <fgr...@gmail.com>.............................. : 3084
19: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 3078
20: Michael Foukarakis <electr...@gmail.com>................... : 3038

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 82.80%
2: la...@ludens.elte.hu (Ersek, Laszlo)........................... : 79.56%
3: gwowen <gwo...@gmail.com>...................................... : 78.63%
4: "James" <n...@spam.invalid>...................................... : 73.04%
5: r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)............................ : 69.94%
6: markh...@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com (Mark Hobley)........... : 68.62%
7: i...@localhost.claranet.nl (Ike Naar)........................... : 67.25%
8: "Bill Cunningham" <nos...@nspam.invalid>....................... : 66.16%
9: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 64.88%
10: Phred Phungus <Ph...@example.invalid>.......................... : 64.20%
11: Tor Rustad <bwz...@wvtqvm.vw>.................................. : 63.22%
12: ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)........................ : 62.64%
13: Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com>.................................... : 62.40%
14: Malcolm McLean <malcolm...@btinternet.com>................ : 62.39%
15: J <seawort...@gmail.com>.................................. : 59.90%
16: James Kuyper <james...@verizon.net>......................... : 59.60%
17: William Ahern <wil...@wilbur.25thandClement.com>.............. : 59.22%
18: Kaz Kylheku <kkyl...@gmail.com>............................... : 59.02%
19: c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter).................................. : 57.29%
20: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 54.67%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Richard <rgr...@gmail.com>.................................... : 15.01%
2: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk....@gmail.com>.................. : 17.49%
3: happytoday <ehabaz...@gmail.com>............................ : 23.35%
4: blm...@myrealbox.com <blm...@myrealbox.com>.................... : 24.54%
5: Ian Collins <ian-...@hotmail.com>............................. : 24.69%
6: Phil Carmody <thefatphi...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 26.02%
7: Brian <co...@mailvault.com>..................................... : 28.31%
8: Flash Gordon <sm...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 30.19%
9: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 30.53%
10: Michael Foukarakis <electr...@gmail.com>................... : 33.80%
11: Joe Wright <joeww...@comcast.net>............................ : 35.19%
12: santosh <santo...@gmail.com>................................ : 36.59%
13: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 38.30%
14: James Kanze <james...@gmail.com>............................ : 38.37%
15: Tim Streater <timst...@waitrose.com>........................ : 40.53%
16: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>................................ : 41.14%
17: Andrew Poelstra <apoe...@localhost.localdomain>.............. : 41.31%
18: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 41.32%
19: Luuk <lu...@invalid.lan>........................................ : 42.02%
20: Francois Grieu <fgr...@gmail.com>.............................. : 42.47%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Warning to newbies............................................. : 227
2: Motivation of software professionals........................... : 156
3: The C FAQ...................................................... : 96
4: Efficency and the standard library............................. : 64
5: Missing braces around {0} initializer?!........................ : 42
6: A bit resistant to disruption.................................. : 35
7: newbie question on understanding the main() function........... : 21
8: calling a singly-linked list................................... : 18
9: pointers....................................................... : 18
10: a question about 1-dimension and 2-dimension array............. : 18
11: printf the values of a macro................................... : 17
12: My GetDirectoryTreeSize() function, couple of questions........ : 17
13: Looking for external program invocations....................... : 17
14: OT: Proper use of PRNGs........................................ : 17
15: Making FILE opaque............................................. : 16
16: C99 is not a failure (continued)............................... : 16
17: portable floating-point read/write............................. : 14
18: void * arithmetic.............................................. : 13
19: representation of register's fields............................ : 13
20: compiling C program containing Xutil functions................. : 12

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Warning to newbies............................................. : 943
2: Motivation of software professionals........................... : 491
3: The C FAQ...................................................... : 251
4: Efficency and the standard library............................. : 248
5: A bit resistant to disruption.................................. : 110
6: Missing braces around {0} initializer?!........................ : 97
7: newbie question on understanding the main() function........... : 52
8: My GetDirectoryTreeSize() function, couple of questions........ : 50
9: calling a singly-linked list................................... : 48
10: OT: Proper use of PRNGs........................................ : 47
11: representation of register's fields............................ : 44
12: compiling C program containing Xutil functions................. : 42
13: printf the values of a macro................................... : 40
14: Looking for external program invocations....................... : 36
15: pointers....................................................... : 35
16: Making FILE opaque............................................. : 34
17: So I want to exhaust a lot of memory........................... : 33
18: a question about 1-dimension and 2-dimension array............. : 32
19: reading the source of calling a singly-linked list............. : 31
20: void * arithmetic.............................................. : 30

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.lang.c++.................................................. : 151
2: comp.lang.java.programmer...................................... : 150
3: comp.lang.javascript........................................... : 150
4: microsoft.public.dotnet.general................................ : 144
5: comp.lang.c.moderated.......................................... : 19
6: comp.programming............................................... : 16
7: comp.lang.misc................................................. : 12
8: comp.unix.solaris.............................................. : 12
9: comp.unix.programmer........................................... : 12
10: comp.std.c..................................................... : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0......................................................... : 44
2: Mozilla........................................................ : 15
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)........................ : 11
4: rn............................................................. : 11
5: Gnus........................................................... : 8
6: KNode.......................................................... : 7
7: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 7
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817)............................ : 6
9: Unknown........................................................ : 5
10: tin............................................................ : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2........................................................ : 314 (31%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 144 (14%)
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 114 (11%)
4: Gnus...................................................... : 93 ( 9%)
5: Mozilla................................................... : 59 ( 6%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11................................. : 54 ( 5%)
7: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 39 ( 4%)
8: Outlook Express........................................... : 35 ( 3%)
9: Pan....................................................... : 28 ( 3%)
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh........................... : 25 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................................ : 386
2: -0800.......................................................... : 376
3: +0100.......................................................... : 117
4: -0500.......................................................... : 54
5: -0600.......................................................... : 33
6: -0700.......................................................... : 20
7: +0200.......................................................... : 17
8: +1300.......................................................... : 10
9: +0900.......................................................... : 1
10: +0800.......................................................... : 1

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Feb 20, 2010, 3:07:19 PM2/20/10

Total posts considered: 997 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Feb 13 20:08:04 2010
Latest article: Sat Feb 20 20:04:05 2010
Original articles: 34, replies: 963
Total size of posts: 3,314,089 bytes (3,236K) (3.16M)
Average 142 articles per day, 0.45 MB per day, 3,324 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,389 KB bodies: 1,846 KB
Body text - quoted: 835 KB, original: 814 KB = 49.36%, sigs: 189 KB
Total number of posters: 130, average 25,492 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 56, average 59,180 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 31

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 118
2: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 73
3: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 72
4: "Chris M. Thomasson" <n...@spam.invalid>......................... : 45
5: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 39
6: Malcolm McLean <malcolm...@btinternet.com>................ : 28
7: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 28
8: la...@ludens.elte.hu (Ersek, Laszlo)........................... : 24
9: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 24
10: blm...@myrealbox.com <blm...@myrealbox.com>.................... : 23
11: ImpalerCore <jadi...@gmail.com>............................... : 20
12: Branimir Maksimovic <bm...@hotmail.com>........................ : 20
13: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 17
14: Phred Phungus <Ph...@example.invalid>.......................... : 16
15: Kaz Kylheku <kkyl...@gmail.com>............................... : 16
16: Ertugrul =?UTF-8?B?U8O2eWxlbWV6?= <e...@ertes.de>................ : 15
17: pac...@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry).............................. : 15
18: James Kanze <james...@gmail.com>............................ : 15
19: ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)........................ : 14
20: c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter).................................. : 13

1: blm...@myrealbox.com <blm...@myrealbox.com>.................... : 5838
2: Julienne Walker <happy...@hotmail.com>...................... : 5711
3: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 5346
4: Jehu Galeahsa <jehuga...@gmail.com>......................... : 5238
5: fedora <no_...@invalid.invalid>............................... : 4783
6: James Kanze <james...@gmail.com>............................ : 4653
7: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 4389
8: Tim Streater <timst...@waitrose.com>........................ : 4239
9: Arved Sandstrom <dce...@hotmail.com>.......................... : 4112
10: c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter).................................. : 4051
11: ImpalerCore <jadi...@gmail.com>............................... : 3503
12: Thad Smith <Thad...@acm.org>................................. : 3488
13: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 3427
14: Ertugrul =?UTF-8?B?U8O2eWxlbWV6?= <e...@ertes.de>................ : 3373
15: Francois Grieu <fgr...@gmail.com>.............................. : 3373
16: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 3279
17: Branimir Maksimovic <bm...@hotmail.com>........................ : 3256
18: Peter Nilsson <ai...@acay.com.au>.............................. : 3185
19: Willem <wil...@snail.stack.nl>................................. : 3084
20: "Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <mal...@mac.com>................... : 3073

1: t...@t.com........................................................ : 95.11%
2: Peter Nilsson <ai...@acay.com.au>.............................. : 80.85%
3: Branimir Maksimovic <bm...@hotmail.com>........................ : 68.75%
4: r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)............................ : 68.14%
5: Francois Grieu <fgr...@gmail.com>.............................. : 66.62%
6: ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)........................ : 65.67%
7: Hyman Rosen <hyr...@mail.com>................................. : 65.45%
8: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 64.49%
9: la...@ludens.elte.hu (Ersek, Laszlo)........................... : 62.97%
10: Eric Sosman <eso...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 62.94%
11: c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter).................................. : 62.25%
12: Malcolm McLean <malcolm...@btinternet.com>................ : 61.46%
13: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 60.70%
14: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 58.65%
15: "Chris M. Thomasson" <n...@spam.invalid>......................... : 54.76%
16: Lew <no...@lewscanon.com>...................................... : 54.65%
17: Kaz Kylheku <kkyl...@gmail.com>............................... : 53.91%
18: Ertugrul =?UTF-8?B?U8O2eWxlbWV6?= <e...@ertes.de>................ : 51.06%
19: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 48.94%
20: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 48.32%

1: Richard <rgr...@gmail.com>.................................... : 12.60%
2: Joe Wright <joeww...@comcast.net>............................ : 13.18%
3: "Mike Schilling" <mscotts...@hotmail.com>................. : 29.82%
4: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 31.13%
5: Barry Schwarz <schw...@dqel.com>.............................. : 31.67%
6: blm...@myrealbox.com <blm...@myrealbox.com>.................... : 32.02%
7: Jehu Galeahsa <jehuga...@gmail.com>......................... : 32.87%
8: Phil Carmody <thefatphi...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 33.15%
9: Nick <3-no...@temporary-address.org.uk>....................... : 34.81%
10: Tim Streater <timst...@waitrose.com>........................ : 35.62%
11: "Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <mal...@mac.com>................... : 35.84%
12: Arved Sandstrom <dce...@hotmail.com>.......................... : 36.27%
13: Julienne Walker <happy...@hotmail.com>...................... : 36.83%
14: Andrew Poelstra <apoe...@localhost.localdomain>.............. : 37.05%
15: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 38.51%
16: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 41.98%
17: Walter Banks <wal...@bytecraft.com>............................ : 42.21%
18: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 42.72%
19: ImpalerCore <jadi...@gmail.com>............................... : 44.14%
20: James Kanze <james...@gmail.com>............................ : 46.80%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Efficency and the standard library............................. : 219
2: Experiment: functional concepts in C........................... : 170
3: substring finding problem!..................................... : 154
4: Motivation of software professionals........................... : 83
5: derived-type object............................................ : 43
6: Warning to newbies............................................. : 32
7: OLE - link or embed?........................................... : 30
8: decoding a declaration......................................... : 22
9: Knowing the implementation, are all undefined behaviours become : 18
10: The C FAQ...................................................... : 17
11: Knowing the implementation, are all undefined behaviours become : 15
12: plz explain the programs output................................ : 13
13: Native code.................................................... : 13
14: A substring replacement implementation......................... : 12
15: Sorting a Dynamic Array of Pointers............................ : 12
16: arrays......................................................... : 11
17: why it doesn't work?........................................... : 10
18: Knowing the implementation, are all undefined behaviours become : 9
19: how to test if type uint32_t exists?........................... : 8
20: Portable IEEE754 write routine................................. : 8

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Efficency and the standard library............................. : 948
2: Experiment: functional concepts in C........................... : 500
3: substring finding problem!..................................... : 499
4: Motivation of software professionals........................... : 292
5: Warning to newbies............................................. : 153
6: derived-type object............................................ : 97
7: OLE - link or embed?........................................... : 72
8: Sorting a Dynamic Array of Pointers............................ : 47
9: A substring replacement implementation......................... : 45
10: The C FAQ...................................................... : 43
11: Knowing the implementation, are all undefined behaviours become : 40
12: decoding a declaration......................................... : 34
13: A bit resistant to disruption.................................. : 34
14: Knowing the implementation, are all undefined behaviours become : 32
15: Portable IEEE754 write routine................................. : 25
16: Knowing the implementation, are all undefined behaviours become : 24
17: Native code.................................................... : 24
18: plz explain the programs output................................ : 22
19: arrays......................................................... : 20
20: OT: Proper use of PRNGs........................................ : 20

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.lang.c++.................................................. : 135
2: comp.lang.functional........................................... : 112
3: comp.lang.java.programmer...................................... : 83
4: microsoft.public.dotnet.general................................ : 83
5: comp.lang.javascript........................................... : 83
6: alt.lang.asm................................................... : 6
7: comp.programming............................................... : 5
8: comp.arch.embedded............................................. : 4
9: comp.lang.misc................................................. : 1
10: comp.unix.solaris.............................................. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0......................................................... : 50
2: rn............................................................. : 12
3: Mozilla........................................................ : 10
4: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 9
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)........................ : 8
6: Gnus........................................................... : 7
7: Unknown........................................................ : 5
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817)............................ : 4
9: Forte Agent.................................................... : 4
10: Pan............................................................ : 3

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2........................................................ : 315 (32%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 110 (11%)
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 100 (10%)
4: Gnus...................................................... : 79 ( 8%)
5: Outlook Express........................................... : 79 ( 8%)
6: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 62 ( 6%)
7: Mozilla................................................... : 57 ( 6%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11................................. : 50 ( 5%)
9: unknown................................................... : 43 ( 4%)
10: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 16 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0800.......................................................... : 415
2: UTC............................................................ : 349
3: +0100.......................................................... : 110
4: -0500.......................................................... : 64
5: -0700.......................................................... : 25
6: +0530.......................................................... : 13
7: +0200.......................................................... : 8
8: -0600.......................................................... : 6
9: +0900.......................................................... : 2
10: -0100.......................................................... : 2

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