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by dragonwriter 2904 days ago
> We are used to consider time-zones due to the useful subdivision of the Longitude in 24 steps and with that we all (should) agree

Time zones don't actually form an even division of longitude into 24 zones, or even consistently follow lines of longitude at all.

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Yeah and we got stuff like Newfoundland, which is in a half timezone. It's 30 minutes ahead of Eastern Time.