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Re:Why London is 4-5 hrs ahead and LA is 3 hrs behind Boston... by tracker1 on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:26PM (#41323625)
Because time-zones are based on regions and borders, not by degrees on a globe.
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Re:Why London is 4-5 hrs ahead and LA is 3 hrs behind Boston... by gboone on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:12PM (#41323985)
An example for economic "region" would be the northwest county of Indiana which is the same time zone as Chicago, one state over in Illinois, while Indiana is otherwise one hour ahead.
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Re:Why London is 4-5 hrs ahead and LA is 3 hrs behind Boston... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:16PM (#41324032)
Didn't Indiana transition to be all in the same time zone recently?
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Re:Why London is 4-5 hrs ahead and LA is 3 hrs behind Boston... by tiffanyh on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:27PM (#41324111)
An image is worth a 1,000 words

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/World_Ti...

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Re:Why London is 4-5 hrs ahead and LA is 3 hrs behind Boston... by lbourdages on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:52PM (#41324297)
China is the worst offender. It must be terrible during winter when you live on the far western side of the country, and the sun rises at noon or something :/
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Re:Why London is 4-5 hrs ahead and LA is 3 hrs behind Boston... by cssinate on Friday August 23, 2024 @09:41AM (#41328931)
What do you mean? The sun always shines while the great Xi Jinping is in power.

lol

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