the.com/timezone
proof that time is less physics and more committee meeting.
means a region where everyone agrees to lie about noon in the same way.
from before railroads, every town set its clock by local solar noon, meaning trains had to carry dozens of conflicting times; in 1884 an international conference sliced the globe into 24 standardized wedges radiating from greenwich to fix the chaos.
widest offensechina spans 5 zones, uses just 1.
weirdest offsetsome zones sit 45 minutes off standard.
total zones38 exist, not a clean 24.
line of madnessthe international date line zigzags around nations.