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for that, time zone boundaries should be straight lines rather than following arbitrary political whims. then you’d only have a half hour variance at most.
by clairity 5y ago
for that, time zone boundaries should be straight lines rather than following arbitrary political whims. then you’d only have a half hour variance at most.
- sokoloff 5y agoIt seems extremely impractical for a city to be in two time zones.
- clairity 5y agothe problem isn't going around a city here or there (a few degree minutes), but the crazy meanderings for tens/hundreds of miles in either direction (a few to many degrees). some zone lines are so far off that they're two ideal zones away from where they should be.
- mark-r 5y agoAnd then you'd need to know your exact longitude to know what time it is - doesn't sound workable to me. Although it would make life easier for GPS makers.
- clairity 5y agoyou'd still have 24 zones, but they'd be straight lines, not the crazy lines a 3-year-old might make that we have now.