Costa Rica and Yukon are only 1 hour apart

Posted by Mexican_Bloon

22 Comments

  1. native-american-22 on

    Amazing to see Yukon being in UTC-7 when it “should” be in UTC-9, like Alaska, based on its longitude. And Alaska “should” be split between -9, -10, and -11. I wonder how late sunrise and sunset are in Yukon.

  2. Stock_Surfer on

    Countries near the equator don’t really get much of a sunlight difference throughout the year

  3. youlooksofine82 on

    We forget the curvature of the earth? Each degree of separation is shorter as you go more north… So…

  4. It isn’t nearly as far west as the Mercator projection makes it appear. 

  5. Otherwise-Pirate6839 on

    Man, PR should consider being at -4:30 or pull a Nepal and be at -4:45. It would lessen the disconnect from solar noon significantly.

  6. This is only during the winter. During the summer, most of the US switches one zone right, so BC/Yukon and WA/OR/CA are all on the same time zone.

    Once fall hits and DST goes away, the west coast shifts an hour later and suffers early sunsets.

  7. So this is true, but the map isn’t right now due to Daylight savings, Costa Rica is currently on the same time as Denver