The difference in degrees between the longtitude of an area and the "ideal" longtitude of that timezone. The earth moves at 15 degrees per hour.
Posted by _Payback
The difference in degrees between the longtitude of an area and the "ideal" longtitude of that timezone. The earth moves at 15 degrees per hour.
Posted by _Payback
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Who determines the “ideal” though?
Since when does Xinjiang has its own timezone?
But yeah it’s so crazy that China only has one big timezone lmao
My hottest take is that we should get rid of timezones. Sync all clocks to Greenwich. Timezones only introduce confusion.
Why Chile? Why is on Brazil time?
China doesn‘t have time zones??? That’s crazy
Learned about the Xinjiang Time / Beijing Time parallelism for the first time, very interesting.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time)
China having one timezone is like having one Netflix password for the entire family – technically it works, but someone’s always getting screwed over.
Wow this is a really cool chart
Whats up with that little patch in Saskatchewan ?
Finally, a genuinely beautiful bit of data. Too often it’s interesting, but ugly af
Not having the Great Lakes is really breaking my brain.
I love this map! OP do you have a high-resolution version you could share? u/_Payback
thanks for omitting close ups for Australia-NZ and South America, the ones that have the most striking deviations worth of seeing closer.
Can someone explain what’s going on in Australia? Why do the southern states have such deviations?