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Time zones already mean that's not true. Pretty recently there was a post (I think here on HN) that shaded the entire world to show how far off from 12pm they
by eridius 11y ago
Time zones already mean that's not true.
Pretty recently there was a post (I think here on HN) that shaded the entire world to show how far off from 12pm they are when the sun is directly overhead. There were some pretty serious gradients on a lot of time zones (where the left edge is far off in one direction and the right edge is far off in the other direction). And there were a lot of time zones where the entire zone was offset in one direction.
Unfortunately I don't remember enough to find that post again.
- jjp 11y agoThink you probably mean this map - http://blog.poormansmath.net/the-time-it-takes-to-change-the-time/ http://blog.poormansmath.net/the-time-it-takes-to-change-the...
- eridius 11y agoYeah that's the one.
- Houshalter 11y agoTime zones still give a close approximation to solar time. In an ideal time zone, you won't be off by more than 30 minutes. Daylight savings time means you can be off by a whole hour, on top of the error introduced by time zones.