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Re:Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the Euro... by bobthepanda on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:12PM (#38476838)
I agree.

National borders is quite possibly one of the worst ways to do time zones. At least in the US time zone borders were specifically chosen to run through areas of low population, so you would minimize the number of people doing, say, living in France but working in Geneva one hour ahead.

Also it's kind of odd that Ireland and Portugal are in their own little time zone, when it probably makes more sense to just sync up with all their other neighbors.

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Re:Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the Euro... by simbolit on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:17PM (#38476921)
Ireland and Portugal already are together in this time zone, but the UK is with them, which makes good friday sense.

Map of Timezones: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/World_Ti...

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Re:Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the Euro... by ianburrell on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:21PM (#38476979)
It would make sense to have Portgual and Ireland in the Western Europe time zone. They are right over the border from UTC but it makes sense to include them with neighbors. Especialy when they are currently in UTC. It is Spain and France that need to move.
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Re:Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the Euro... by madcaptenor on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:09PM (#38477699)
For what it's worth, Spain and France were on GMT (as it was back then) before World War II.

(Technically French law referred to the time as "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds" - they had thought the Prime Meridian ought to run through Paris rather than London and were sore about losing that.)

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Re:Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the Euro... by bobthepanda on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:29PM (#38477119)
Oh interesting.

Admittedly that map is a bit difficult to read as a colorblind person.

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Re:Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the Euro... by BigFnTelly on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:56PM (#38479761)
Poor Yukon, skipping 2 time zones
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Re:Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the Euro... by madcaptenor on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:36PM (#38478058)
I wonder if with a plan like this, the borders would get adjusted a little bit so that the French suburbs of Geneva would follow Swiss time. You see things like this in the US, where for example the Indiana suburbs of Chicago follow Chicago time.
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Re:Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the Euro... by madcaptenor on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:51PM (#38477432)
I share your opinion re: Ireland and Portugal. This is like, for example, in the US setting Maine to be in its own time zone.
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