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I wish we had the lines to compare.
Funny how it went from pretty much correct to completely fucked
Now the Spaniards are lobbying against constantly keeping the DST…
Rightfully so. Always DST makes the countries that are already off their natural time even more off.
In principle, they have DST already.
Technically every 30 metres there should be a 1 second time zone adjustment.
Actually every 463 meters.
40 075km is circumference of Earth. There are 24x60x60 seconds in a day.
40 075×1 000÷(24×60 ×60) =~ 463.8
Wouldn’t it depend on latitude? It would be much less than 463 metres at the latitudes of Europe
Yes, distance of 1" on equator (463.8 m) × cosine of latitude
longitude. This means approximately 350 m in Rome, 285,6 m in Berlin and 232 m in Helsinki. In reality a bit less, as I didn’t take the ellipsoid shape of the globe into account.
Then we’d be back in pre-railway era.
I find it amazing that there were places without official time zones in 1923.
Ukraine didn’t exist, Romania was a shitshow, etc.
Ukraine existed, but was part of USSR. Strangely enough that there were no official time zones for all parts of the USSR.
Damn, Spain and Morocco being UTC+1 is nuts. Even France and Algeria are stretching it a bit far for my liking. And it gets even more crazy for the European countries for over half the year when they play pretendy-magic-time and go to UTC+2.
Portugal was understandably like “nah fuck you guys”. Still like a bit lonely on a map though.
Otherwise the people on the Azores would go nuts.
Azores is UTC-1 anyway.
Yes, the difference to the mother country would be even larger.
Sooo?
Different time zones are said to make business more complicated. I think that’s why the CET/CEST time zone is stretched out that much.
France amd Spain being +1 is apparently a relic from the 40s when Germany occupied France and the Spanish government felt they needed to switch to appease Germany. It is kinda funny neither switched back.
Similarly, this holds for the BeNeLux countries. NED: GMT +0:19:32 / +0:20 since 1937, BEL and LUX used GMT since 1918
