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"Natural local time " hasn't been the status quo for over 100 years. Just look at this map: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/02/how-wrong-is-your-time
by tdeck 6y ago
"Natural local time
" hasn't been the status quo for over 100 years. Just look at this map:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/02/how-wrong-is-your-time-zone-map-shows-how-far-world-clocks-are-from-solar-time.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/02/how-wrong-is-you...
- aidenn0 6y agoBlog slate linked to isn't live any more; here's a direct link to the larger map via archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20150304212105/http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTime.png https://web.archive.org/web/20150304212105/http://blog.poorm...
- waterhouse 6y agoI'll grant that hour-granularity time zones are pragmatically useful. But why make the difference from "noon = solar noon" any worse than it needs to be?