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I once found a latitude with 4 different time zones. I think it goes through Pakistan. Time zones are always going to be weird.
by rocqua 8y ago
I once found a latitude with 4 different time zones. I think it goes through Pakistan. Time zones are always going to be weird.
- selimthegrim 8y agoI believe India and Pakistan shared a time zone until partition (there were Bombay and Calcutta Times), and Pakistan adopted some standards asymptotically closer to Bombay Time (see the Wikipedia article for Karachi time)
- madcaptenor 8y agoIf the Wikipedia map (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Time_Zones_Map.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Ti...) is accurate: - at the longitude of Kabul you have Afghanistan (+4.5), Pakistan (+5), India (+5.5), and Kazakhstan (+6). - at the longitude of Rangoon you have India (+5.5), Burma (+6.5), Indonesia (+7), China (+8) (and the open ocean at this longitude is theoretically +6)
- rocqua 8y agoThere is actually also +3 at that latitude. In russia, the moscow timezone reaches far enough in the North. That means you get 6 timezones for that latitude if you include the ocean.
- madcaptenor 8y agoThat's what I get for figuring this out by eye.