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A Map of the world showing where the local time zone is wrong (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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A map of the world with vertical lines marking the time zones from UTC-12 to UTC+12. It has a legend:

Wrong Time

"Natural time zones" are 15° in longitude. Land in red observes a time other than the zone it lies within. Smaller islands depict their 12 nautical mile territorial sea, for visual effect. In some cases this includes a state's archipelagic waters.

Plate Carrée projection, WGS-84 datum. December 2018 © International Mapping, all rights reserved.

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"wrong". technically it's entirely made up. you can write whatever number you want on the scale where the sun hits the zenith as long as all people nearby can agree to it.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, methinks a gradient would have been better instead of a solid demarcation