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The West Bank has (had?) timezones that are based on ethnicity, not geographic location: https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/ https://www.97

The West Bank has (had?) timezones that are based on ethnicity, not geographic location: https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/ https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/

mjlee 6y ago
Every time I consider this I'm reminded of an incident where 3 Israeli Arabs blew themselves up instead of their target, probably due to daylight savings time. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/clocks-change-killed-bombers-1117380.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/clocks-change-kille...
- taliesinb 6y ago
  That’s straight out of Tintin and the Broken Ear, where a would-be terrorist blows himself up after a time change: https://imgur.com/gallery/27jxctY https://imgur.com/gallery/27jxctY
- sdenton4 6y ago
  I have a collection of 'mistakes you make exactly once,' mistakes that are so obvious in retrospect and terrible in consequence that you would never, ever do it again. This is a whole other class, though.
  - hyiltiz 6y ago
    Care to share? I am sure that would be very useful for me (and probably many others).