So much politics going on in this map.
The eternal UK 🤝 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?
Please remember that the curvature of this map is off, accurate would be a globe map. Its not that wild, EU has a common time zone because its better for business.
I thought many of the countries originally adopted it because of a certain mustache man.
That’d be most of them I think. Though it is right that we didn’t change back after the war because it’s convenient for business. And now everybody’s holding off on getting rid of DST because some countries prefer permanent summer time and others permanent winter time (fucking degenerates, no I will not take anyone else’s opinion on this, I am tired of explaining to people that time is made up but business hours won’t change and therefore winter time = less/no daylight for office workers).
Anyway point is we’d probably have seen several countries switch timezones or off DST if business was not a concern.
Getting rid of DST and keeping standard (winter) time means the same winters we currently have. The sun just sets and rises ‘earlier’ during the summer according to clocks if they weren’t set to DST.
When time comes up, everybody seems to forget that working hours can just change too. Why ruin the whole organisation of timezones by being in summer time randomly if you can be in regular time and just shift the working hours if you have a problem with it?
Well whatta ya’know, you’re 100% correct!
https://www.timetemperature.com/globes/europe-time-zone-globe.shtml
EU has a common time zone
Nobody told the Irish, Greeks, Finns and Baltic states ?
Iceland UTCMasterrace 💪 UK and Portugal allowed to join during the winter
At least no time zone is doughnut shapes
CET gang needs to start annexing neighbors until the whole world is CET red :D.
But for real, time of day is just numbers, it needn’t be that eg 5:00 has to mean morning hours (as is it changes every day a bit bcs of Earths tilt + it changes with longitude and latitude even within the same arbitrary timezone).
If we have ‘world clock tech’ then let’s have one world time. I’ll still be late whatever the case.
Crimea is technically the same time zone as Moscow, because Russia administers the region … for now
