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[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Just watched a video which explains a few things.

Time zones start in UK because of some decent reasoning. France was also a contender for where timezones start for the same kinds of reasoning but conceded it in agreement that UK adopts the new metric system they created