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European timezones are wild (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/mapporn@lemmy.world
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So much politics going on in this map.

The eternal UK ๐Ÿค Portugal alliance and the awkward space it creates between them.

Spain and Poland are in the same timezones.

The weird corridor created by Belarus.

Ukraine is in a separate tz from Russia, I wonder when that was established

What the hell is going on with the light blue in the east?

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[โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Time zones are what let you know whether it's the middle of the night when you want to call gram gram in Ireland. Or are you proposing we all abide the same wake/sleep times and ignore the sun entirely? Who gets the good shift on that clock?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    What's a good time to call gram gram is a good example.

    She said 10:00.

    Option one: Is that my 10:00, or her 10:00, which is 13:00 for me? Is she in daylight savings at the moment? So that would be 12:00 for me, unless we're in that weird period where one of us has started daylight savings and the other is not yet finished theirs, which would make it 14:00 for me? Or is it the other way around, and her 10:00 is my 11:00? Oh wait, she's visiting her sister in Morocco, what's the difference there?

    Option two: 10:00 is 10:00, wherever the heck you are, be it down the street, in Greenland, or on Mars.

    The clock is only roughly tied to the sun anyway. At the end of December, the sun sets at 8pm in Capetown, but half past three in Warsaw. These places are in the same time zone.

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