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9071456 No.9071456 [Reply] [Original]

Why are timezone lines not straight but have square ripples ?

>> No.9071461
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9071461

time cube guy was right all along

>> No.9071474

Because each country's government chooses what time zone to be in.

>> No.9071491

>>9071456
Timezones are shit idea in a globalized. We should all just live in UTC.

>> No.9071536

>>9071491
people would never use it

>> No.9071544

>China: how can we fuck with those Tibetans even more?
>UTC+8: hol' up, I got this

>> No.9071552

>>9071456
You just blew my mind OP

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>>9071544

>> No.9071675

>>9071456
Because politics and society. It's a hallmark of where you 'belong' in terms of governance and commerce.

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>>9071491
UTC is a shit idea in a relative world. We should all just live in 4-dimensional Minkowski space.

>> No.9071814

No reason to round it up, if you want put some islands into another timezone, just make it in a square shape, you'll only affect some water this way

>> No.9071881

coz politicians have to think about the majority of their countries' populations who cant do basic math thus covering their whole cultural group into one single time zone

>> No.9072089

>>9071692
I'd say unix time, but that's UTC as well