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Timezones are political and economic statements (and sometimes even religious - https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/africa#L853 ). Things like China being all one timezone or India changing to IST after declaring independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_India#After_independen... . An example of an economic change was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line#Easter...

Trying to make sense of them as purely time keeping artifacts is bound to have misunderstandings.