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A map of the world with vertical lines marking the time zones from UTC-12 to UTC+12. It has a legend:
Wrong Time
"Natural time zones" are 15° in longitude. Land in red observes a time other than the zone it lies within. Smaller islands depict their 12 nautical mile territorial sea, for visual effect. In some cases this includes a state's archipelagic waters.
Plate Carrée projection, WGS-84 datum. December 2018 © International Mapping, all rights reserved.
when?
in the summer or winter?
One of the many reasons this makes no sense.
This uses standard time across the board. Because accounting for shifts due to pretendy-magic-time would be impossible in a static image.
We spend most of our year in daylight savings time. Standard time is the pretendy-magic-time.
Daylight saving time would take it from western Europe being red to almost all of Europe apart from Russia and Belarus being red. It would invert the parts of the contiguous US states so the current correct time places are wrong, and the current wrong parts are correct. Which means both the east and west coasts (the most populated parts by far) are now wrong. And incidentally, Alaska stays entirely red. It would make the western most edges of NSW and Victoria good, as well as the western half of South Australia, at the expense of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, and Hobart, nearly half the country's population, before you even begin to account for the rest of the southeast.
Just pointing out the ridiculousness of getting petty and insulting about the way other people define time scales because you don't agree. There is no objective truth here, just subjective opinions. ALL of those opinions and methods have flaws, especially your beloved "everyone should just use UTC". There is no such thing as "correct" here, so putting that word in your map's title and using "right" and "wrong" in this discussion is just naive.
The thing with DST is it's not just a matter of personal opinion. Studies have been done on it, and they universally come down on the idea that it's really bad. Heart attacks, traffic crashes, and suicides all go up as a result of DST. Economic productivity goes down. Here are a handful:
I'm particularly a fan of the penultimate one linked there, which states:
In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.
But also, you know I didn't make this map, right? It's just map that paints places in red if their solar noon is more than half an hour away from their clock's noon. Which is the "right" way to do things unless your goal is abolition of time zones entirely in favour of adapting working hours to the local conditions without adjusting clocks.
You're so wound up about making your point and defending your point of view that you're not actually comprehending my comments. It's your map in the sense that you are presenting it to us, who authored it isn't really relevant to this discussion.
Bruh, I just presented it because it was cool. You're the one getting hung up on whether the fairly basic premise of the chart is the best premise that could have been used.
But yes, that DST is bad is a hill I was absolutely die on. That shit is terrible, and I have zero patience for people who defend it once the reason for objecting to it is explained to them.
Bro, if you didn't want people to respond with genuine takes on what you post and if you're going to be so defensive, why are you even here?
Also, I'm not defending anything. DST should be the standard time because we spend most of the year in it anyway. But that's just my own opinion, which I feel no need to defend to you or anyone else.
But that’s just my own opinion
Your opinion has as much relevance here as the opinion of climate change deniers.
Rude.
In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.
So looking at the US map, it looks like a lot of the red zones are because they've arbitrarily defined the borders of the time zone. But US time zones are mostly concerned with making sure that the country is roughly evenly spaced across time zones. Really the northeastern part of the country is what's out of alignment.
No? We're perfectly fine!
I lived in New England for a couple of decades. Trust me, you're not.
Timezone-wise though?
If you like it being dark by 4
Having lived in parts of the red and grey zones, some of the colours should be reversed
Russia looks funny
The entire timezone and Gregorian calendar concepts are outdated political tool. We should’ve switched to consistent UTC-only clock and natural World Calendar or Cotsworth calendar
natural World Calendar
Couldn't find details of what that is.
Cotsworth calendar
Ok this is very interesting. I like it.
But personally, I'm a bigger fan of the Calendar of Harptos from the fantasy Forgotten Realms world. Conveniently, it also has 365 days per year, except every 4 years when it's 366. 12 months of three ten-days each. It has a few more intercalary days than Cotsworth, but maintains a number of months divisible by 4 so we can continue having 3 months per season.
And speaking of seasons. In this idealised world, everywhere (or at least everywhere that uses the Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter season cycle) should use meteorological seasons, rather than the ridiculous astrological seasons currently more popular in Europe and North America.
I want more sun after my work. Local time zones don't make any sense.
And people wonder about Brexit