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Just The World’s Time Zones

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 2 Comments

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Map created by Branden Rishel, Cartographers without borders

The map above shows the world’s time zones, nothing more, nothing less. It was created by Branden Rishel over at Cartographers without borders, another really awesome map site.

A few countries and territories have clear outlines due to weird time zone decisions including:

  • China (officially just one time zone for the whole country, UTC+08:00)
  • Argentina, which is on UTC-3:00 time (should be UTC-4:00 or UTC-5:00) and which also only sometimes observes daylight savings time.
  • Iceland, which is on GMT despite being significantly to the west of Greenwich.
  • The Canadian province of Newfoundland, which has time zone that is 3:30 mins behind UTC (UTC-3:30)
  • India and Sri Lanka which both use Indian Standard Time or UTC+5:30.
  • Iran, which uses Iran Standard Time (UTC+03:30).
  • Nepal which uses the bizarre Nepal Standard Time or UTC+5:45. Which means if it’s 12pm UTC then it will be 5:45pm in Nepal.

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Comments

  1. Gordon Dudgeon says

    September 3, 2020 at 9:10 am

    The best time zone had to be pre ww2 Amsterdam Time. GMT + 20 mins. Up until, 1940 when an invading power changed it to Berlin Time. Mind yiu it had been gmt + 19 mins 32.13 seconds up until 1937.

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  2. John McGee says

    August 17, 2022 at 10:30 am

    There are no parallel lines when it comes to time zones.

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