The difference in degrees between the longtitude of an area and the "ideal" longtitude of that timezone. The earth moves at 15 degrees per hour.

Posted by _Payback

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  2. Since when does Xinjiang has its own timezone?

    But yeah it’s so crazy that China only has one big timezone lmao

  3. My hottest take is that we should get rid of timezones. Sync all clocks to Greenwich. Timezones only introduce confusion.

  7. China having one timezone is like having one Netflix password for the entire family – technically it works, but someone’s always getting screwed over.

  9. Whats up with that little patch in Saskatchewan ?

  10. Finally, a genuinely beautiful bit of data. Too often it’s interesting, but ugly af

  11. Not having the Great Lakes is really breaking my brain.

  12. I love this map! OP do you have a high-resolution version you could share? u/_Payback

  13. thanks for omitting close ups for Australia-NZ and South America, the ones that have the most striking deviations worth of seeing closer.

  14. Can someone explain what’s going on in Australia? Why do the southern states have such deviations?

  15. This is a beautiful plot and an awesome idea.

    I took a class in celestial navigation (sextants, …) and had often wondered what this exact map would look like.

    I don’t understand how you’re treating daylight saving. I think you should plot 365 maps, one for each day of the year, and show how clock time differs from ideal. Then we’d see (1) how the bands of color shift gradually, (2) how they jump.

  16. The world should have one time zone I would be fine waking up at 7:00 p.m. if that means I would never have to deal with scheduling meetings across time zones ever again.

  17. I can’t tell, are all the differences going in the same direction? I feel like there should be different colors for a positive vs negative difference.

  18. We should all go back to local solar time. Our mobile devices all have GPS in them to adjust the time displayed based on location and appointments can easily be translated into whatever local time you have.

    We could all be living in the moment.

  19. why are Argentina and Chile in the wrong time zone?

  20. I used to live in the yellow-orange and now I’ve moved somewhere more “correct” and I hate it. Relatively speaking, the sun rises half an hour earlier but also sets half an hour earlier. Miss my evening sun. (Pretty sure born these places are currently showing dst on this map but still)

  21. Is there a need to adjust the rate of deviation based on geographical distance at certain latitudes?

    Like, if I’m 22 degrees off near the north pole, it doesn’t mean as much as being 22 degrees off near the equator. The distances are vastly different.

  22. thr andamans are wild, and not really visible on this map.

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