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Re:World map of the difference between solar and clock time by nostromo on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:02PM (#10320166)
This is so cool! But the coloring is a bit frustrating because -1 on the scale is just as red as -2 or -3 or more.

So, for example, Western China is the region that is most disconnected from solar time. It's off by more than 3 hours. (Imagine a summer sunset at midnight, or a winter sunrise at 10am.) But it looks just as red as Saskatchewan, which is off by only an hour.

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Re:World map of the difference between solar and clock time by evincarofautumn on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:45PM (#10320821)
Note that while China has one official time zone, in practice many people (particularly Uighurs in the west) use local time zones with less error.
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