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GE🤔Why Time Zones Look So Weird on the Map!?
CONTEXT:
The Earth is divided into 24 time zones, but have you ever wondered why they look so strange and uneven on the world map?
Time officially begins at the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, London, known as 0° longitude or 0 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
Every region to the east of Greenwich adds hours (positive offsets),
while regions to the west subtract hours (negative offsets).
For example, if you’re in Los Angeles, your time zone is UTC -8.
But if time zones followed perfectly straight vertical lines, cities could literally be split in two different times!
Take Phoenix, USA for example — one half would be in UTC -7 and the other in UTC -8, creating a one-hour time difference inside a single city.
To prevent such confusion, time zone boundaries were adjusted to follow country and regional borders instead of strict longitude lines.
Interestingly, the country with the most time zones in the world is France, thanks to its many overseas territories, covering 12 different time zones.
On the other hand, China, which geographically spans five time zones, uses only one — Beijing Standard Time.
That’s why in Western China, cities like Kashgar can still be dark at 10 a.m.
Time zones aren’t just about clocks — they reveal how geography, politics, and history shape the way our world works.
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