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by jonathankoren 932 days ago
This is a very special troll post, and I am all for this troll.
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It’s not a troll post, I’m very serious: UTC+0:30 corresponds to the solar time at the geographical midpoint of the continental EU. The advantages are legion.
Non hour time zones are an abomination
Time zones are arbitrary and the result of a historical accident. If the standardisation of timekeeping were to have happened in Amsterdam (not unlikely seeing the history of telescope development[0]) the issue would have been moot as UTC would be what is now UTC+0:19:32.13.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telescope

15 degrees an hour is not arbitrary.

It’s an astronomical fact