• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    There’s pretty much nothing right along the international date line, regardless of country. If you’re trying to collect them all you better not care about +12 vs -12. As you can see your options are also limited for -1 and -2.

    Unrelatedly, I’m curious what the story is with Central vs. Mountain time in Nunavut. That’s quite the wasp-waist for such a vast, mostly empty area.

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      2 months ago

      If you’re trying to collect them all you better not care about +12 vs -12.

      And thus it was that France invaded New Zealand’s Chatham Islands and the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

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        Instead of grabbing the Azores for UTC -1, France figured it would be easier to just annex all of Portugal. Brazil was reportedly grateful to no longer have a whole extra timezone for that one -2 island, and also glad to hear that they annexed Portugal.