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proof that noon is just, like, your opinion, man.
means a region that agrees to lie about what time it is together, offset from a line running through greenwich.
from before 1883, every town ran on its own solar noon — us railroads forced standard time so trains stopped colliding with their own schedules; the world followed suit by 1929.
widest countryfrance spans 12 zones with overseas territories
weirdest offsetchatham islands sit at utc+12:45
china's choiceone time zone for a country 5 zones wide
dst originben franklin joked about it, germany did it first