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I occasionally reside in two cities, about a thousand km apart east-west but in one time zone. Schedules between them diverge by about 1.5 hours: shops opening
by aasasd 7y ago
I occasionally reside in two cities, about a thousand km apart east-west but in one time zone. Schedules between them diverge by about 1.5 hours: shops opening and closing times, public transport schedules, etc. Pretty much the only thing keeping them strictly in sync would be TV programming—which however is staggered across the country anyway so it's not insurmountable.
So, if your country has set times for schools, business etc in a time zone despite the difference in sun time, you probably should ask whose bright idea that was.
- ajmurmann 7y agoThat's exactly what time zones are supposed to solve. Sounds like your country has multiple time zones, but doesn't want to call them that.
- aasasd 7y agoSounds more like my country has fewer time zones than fifteen-degree chunks of longitude. Which didn't prevent people from living their life by the sun.
- lb1lf 7y agoWe do here in Norway; I am in the GMT zone at 6 degrees east, while in the extreme east of the country, they're squarely in GMT+2 at 30 degrees east. All of the country is in GMT+1. The difference between standard and solar time is quite pronounced, especially during DST.
- aasasd 7y agoDifficult for me to sympathize in this case, considering how you managed to squeeze both Sweden and Finland away from oil and fish, and how I almost wept when paying for bus between cities in Norway.
- lb1lf 7y agoFun fact - we offered the Swedes commercial rights to sectors in the North Sea as a trade for Volvo stock; the Swedish secretary of commerce basically said 'Hell, no!" at the last minute and backed out of the deal. Edit: It wasn't the Secretary of commerce but the Volvo general assembly which turned the deal down. My bad.
- aasasd 7y agoWell, Volvo should probably outlast those oil reservoirs and the oil dependence. And possibly the fish too.