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Not currently, as far as I can tell, no. Mali and Mauritania are currently on GMT +0, but since the UK is on daylight savings they are currently not on GMT, they are on GMT+1. Because believe it or not BST and GMT are not the same, so Portugal and the UK are one hour off from subsaharan Africa. I see how you'd get mixed up by that.
And it's a similar story with SA, but there I think you're just wrong. There is an extra time zone for Colombia, Peru and Ecuador that is NOT the same as Western Brazil, it's one hour off, -5 instead of -4. Brasilia is two hours away from Lima, not one. I don't think any of those countries does daylight savings at all, though, as far as I can tell, so they match differently to different US zones at different times of year, but I'm pretty sure thery always stay 2 zones away from each other.
So yeah, no, you DID miss a spot. No need to get mad, you can just look up the actual current times, I'm not wrong. Turns out a static map isn't enough to tell you if two places that sometimes have the same hour on the clock are on the same timezone.
Timezones are weird and random and dumb.
Dude, for one last time, if you don't understand it now just don't bother answering. IT'S A JOKE ABOUT TIME ZONES, NOT WHAT THE ACTUAL CLOCK SHOWS!
And for South America: two timezones cover both North and South America, the others don't. Got it?
No, no, THREE timezones cover North and South America, not two. There is an extra timezone to the East of Canada that the US doesn't have that currently overlaps with Brazil Eastern. You're missing a spot.
I mean, if you want to argue that Halifax overlapping Sao Paulo is the same as Iceland overlapping Mali maybe we can talk, but saying that only two timezones overlap between the two is not accurate.
And yeah, it's about timezones, because timezones are not internationally determined and shift throughout the year. If you want to think about timezones as the UTC/GMT offset, then they change throughout the year due to countries doing daylight savings inconsistently. But the only way to think about them otherwise is via country codes (so the UK is always on BST as opposed to GMT +0 in winter and +1 in summer) and then it's a mostly arbitrary mess. Countries aren't mandated to stick to an internationally recognized timezone, not every country needs to line up with another country just because they're generally in the same spot.
I'm unreasonably invested in this, because I'm one hour closer to PST for four blissful weeks of the year and depending on what year (and country) you catch me it's the difference between leaving work on a sunny afternoon or in the dead of night.
That spot is Labrador and Newfoundland, not Nova Scotia (where Halifax is located). Labrador and Newfoundland are islands, not mainland, and not even as significant as the British Isles. They're like Hawai'i which I also didn't count.
Exactly. And I need my energy elsewhere. Bye.
You are, again, factually incorrect. Dude, it's fine, you missed a spot, it's not the end of the world.
It is, as of this writing, 06:32 in Halifax.
It is, as of this writing, 06:33 in Sao Paulo. Took me a minute to look it up.
This is easily available information. All I did at the top of this thread is pull a real time timezone map. I didn't know this off the top of my head, obviously, I'm not THAT much of a nerd.
You were ever so slightly wrong on the internet. On a technicality. It happens. It didn't need to be a flame war.