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>So if you travelled vertically within a timezone, you could end up going back and forth by an hour repeatedly, depending on the state’s decision made here? Se
by renholder 8y ago
>So if you travelled vertically within a timezone, you could end up going back and forth by an hour repeatedly, depending on the state’s decision made here?
See: Arizona
- setr 8y agoArizona is a hack. This is where the EU is starting from.
- BerislavLopac 8y agoYou already have that in EU -- Spain is observing CET (and its summer equivalent CEST) even though it is pretty much completely in the same time zone as Great Britain.
- madcaptenor 8y agoAnd Portugal is on GMT, so you have a bit of Spain (GMT+1) that's due north of Portugal (GMT) and borders it by land. (and most of Portugal is west of 7.5 degrees west so "should" be GMT-1... but really in any sane time zone scheme Portugal and Spain would have the same time.)
- Faaak 8y agoPS: GMT is defined by UTC, and not the other way around.