Gorgeous article about time zones by @oliviafvane.bsky.social, just in time for National What-Time-Is-It-Actually Day www.economist.com/interactive/... - ThreadSky

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Gorgeous article about time zones by @oliviafvane.bsky.social, just in time for National What-Time-Is-It-Actually Day
https://www.economist.com/interactive/graphic-detail/2025/03/29/how-politics-shapes-the-worlds-time-zones

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China has just one time zone, although some in the west of the country prefer the informal “Xinjiang time” which is two hours behind the official “Beijing time”. Do you know which country has the most time zones?
https://www.economist.com/interactive/graphic-detail/2025/03/29/how-politics-shapes-the-worlds-time-zones

Russia comes close. In 2009 President Dmitry Medvedev claimed its 11 time zones were "a vivid symbol of our country’s greatness", before scrapping two of them. (They were reinstated five years later.)
https://www.economist.com/interactive/graphic-detail/2025/03/29/how-politics-shapes-the-worlds-time-zones

As regular pub quizzers will doubtless know, France has the most time zones with 12, or 13 if you count its claim in Antarctica. Find out more about the fascinating world of times zones here
https://www.economist.com/interactive/graphic-detail/2025/03/29/how-politics-shapes-the-worlds-time-zones

Quite an empty discussion. Let me claim own of a 5sqm of land just around the South Pole.
Hei! I have all 24 time zones, right?

Not quite

So, it’s better to be a country with several footsteps around the planet.
I’ll stick with my own country then. Easier, warmer… all advantages 🤩🤩

France

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