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London has long benefitted from its position allowing its working day overlapping everywhere from the US West coast to Japan, even if barely at those extremes.
by spiralx 4y ago
London has long benefitted from its position allowing its working day overlapping everywhere from the US West coast to Japan, even if barely at those extremes. Most of the world's population lies between UTC-5 and UTC+5 I believe.
- decremental 4y agoIs that "most of the world's population" in the same sense as "Mohammed is the most common name?"
- s1artibartfast 4y agoWell, is it?
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- morepork 4y agoGiven India is UTC+5.5 and China is UTC+8, plus many other large countries are outside that range (Indonesia, Japan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Phillipines) I think you need to stretch it a bit
- morepork 4y agoGiven OP's 10 hour range, UTC+0 to UTC+10 is almost certainly going to be the 10 hour range that includes the most people. It includes all of Asia, Europe and Africa, and excludes both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoI think it has to be. UTC+8 is all of China and UTC+5.5 is all of India, and in between are high population countries like Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, so UTC+5.5 to UTC+8 has to be included. UTC+11 to UTC-8.5 is the Pacific Ocean and has maybe 10 million people total, while UTC+0 has >100 million in UK, Portugal and part of Western Africa so UTC+0 must be part of the range. That only leaves the choice between UTC-1/2 and UTC+9/10. UTC-1 and UTC-2 have under a million with only a few small islands while UTC+10 has most of Papua New Guinea with 6 million.
- ascar 4y agoIt also excludes the west coast. -7 to +9 goes from West Coast to Japan and Indonesia, placing UTC+1 (CET e.g. Berlin) in the middle.
- yorwba 4y agoMost of the world's population lives inside the Valeriepieris circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle which is covered by the time zones UTC+5 through UTC+8. So if you want to be as close as possible to as many people as possible, somewhere in Myanmar would be a better choice than London. Of course the calculus changes if you also consider how much money each of these people has access to.
- b112 4y agoMost means "almost all". Your link says about 50%.
- labster 4y agohttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/most https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/most “More than half of” is one of the definitions
- richardw 4y agoInteresting. I think differently but seems there are multiple interpretations. Of course we feel most people would agree with our version ;) https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55920/is-most-equivalent-to-a-majority-of https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55920/is-most-eq...
- hxtk 4y agoI've certainly seen "most" used to mean "almost all", and it appears as though you're feeling a little annoyed to see it used that way because you consider it misleading. I've also frequently seen "most" used to mean "a majority", though, in which case GP's use of the term is precisely consistent with the facts in their source.
- taneq 4y agoLooks like most people disagree. ;)
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoIt's probably one reason why Singapore is a popular location for multinationals to have an office.