I mean timezones are very much an organic human concept in the first place. They aren’t strictly “science” or “data” but reflections of the cultures, values and

I mean timezones are very much an organic human concept in the first place. They aren’t strictly “science” or “data” but reflections of the cultures, values and politics of the humans living in them. Any time zone system, no mater how rational and logical it’s roots are, will eventually get filled with one-offs, exceptions and crazy baggage. It’s like Unicode or any other international standard. They are complex and often logically inconsistent not because the designers are fools, but because humans are wet fuzzy meat bags.