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Has someone calculated the optimal unique timezone for the EU given population distribution and the goal to minimize the sum product of number of people and so
by fouronnes3 3y ago
Has someone calculated the optimal unique timezone for the EU given population distribution and the goal to minimize the sum product of number of people and solar time difference?
- madcaptenor 3y agoYou can get a quick and dirty answer by assuming all of each country's population is at its center of population. Centers of population of each country: https://cs.baylor.edu/~hamerly/software/europe_population_weighted_centers.html#results https://cs.baylor.edu/~hamerly/software/europe_population_we... Country populations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_U... If I've done the math correctly (and this was very quick and dirty) you get something like +0:40 / 10 degrees E, roughly the longitude of Hamburg or Milan. Ultimately there's gridded population data that could be used to get a better answer but I suspect it's in this neighborhood.