I love that time zone map! does anyone know where I can download the jpeg file?
Cheers Donald Christensen 0423 102 090 www.fotoresumes.com <http://www.fotoresumes.com> This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Un-authorized use of this email is subject to penalty of law. So there! On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Steve Lelievre < steve.lelievre.can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24/10/2015 15:22, Dan-George Uza wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/02/21/how_wrong_is_your_time_zone_map_shows_how_far_ahead_or_behind_the_world.html >> >> Are you aware of any territories following official solar time? >> >> >> > Interesting question for which I do not know a definite answer, but I > guess it would depend on how wide the territory is. If true solar time was > used, then the West of the territory is going to run a different time to > the East. Perhaps you could standardise country wide by using, uh, a time > zone centred on your capital city. Greenwich to Trafalgar Square isn't very > far so can we treat the UK as using a timezone based on noon in its > capital? Not during Daylight Savings, though. As well, from the map you > cited, Guyana look like it's fairly well centred to its natural noon. > > For genuine local solar time, I'd like to think that there are indiginous > peoples left in some parts of the world who don't need to live by the > clock, rising with the dawn and bedding down with dusk. > > Steve > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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