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Re:The Tyranny of Time by YossarianFrPrez on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:14AM (#27431191)
My understanding is that India is on one timezone too. One researcher has suggested that introducing timezones could lead to a reduction in fuel emissions via partially offsetting when "peak demand" occurs [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264005963_Reducing_...

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Re:The Tyranny of Time by throw0101a on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:16AM (#27433585)
There are complaints about India's single timezone:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47168359

However, given that India is relatively narrow east-west, the discrepancy between wall time and solar time actually isn't that bad:

* https://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-...

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