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They removed country borders from the time zone selection in a Windows 95 update: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42823 https://devblo

• LeoPanthera 2y ago
  I remember when this happened, which I guess makes me very old. They didn't actually remove the map - they just removed any functionality it had. So the time set window is massive for no reason, it contains this huge world map bitmap that no longer does anything.
  • Kwpolska 2y ago
    Almost nothing, it scrolls horizontally to show the selected time zone in the middle.
    • canucker2016 2y ago
      Think of the dev/test/PM people who worked on this feature. It's not a standard Windows control, so there had to be lots of work to get the timezone boundaries, map to values usable for their world map bitmap, iterate a bit on the behaviour for when the user clicks at x,y on the map, et. al. The elation of shipping the minor feature, followed a few months later, with the realization that most of that work is going to be neutered.
  • jeroenhd 2y ago
    They eventually did remove part of the map: because of politics and timing, Poland was accidentally removed despite the map time zone picker no longer working, because the dedicated Polish timezone the green pixels were attached to were removed.