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A map of the world with vertical lines marking the time zones from UTC-12 to UTC+12. It has a legend:
Wrong Time
"Natural time zones" are 15° in longitude. Land in red observes a time other than the zone it lies within. Smaller islands depict their 12 nautical mile territorial sea, for visual effect. In some cases this includes a state's archipelagic waters.
Plate Carrée projection, WGS-84 datum. December 2018 © International Mapping, all rights reserved.
Having lived in parts of the red and grey zones, some of the colours should be reversed
So looking at the US map, it looks like a lot of the red zones are because they've arbitrarily defined the borders of the time zone. But US time zones are mostly concerned with making sure that the country is roughly evenly spaced across time zones. Really the northeastern part of the country is what's out of alignment.
No? We're perfectly fine!
I lived in New England for a couple of decades. Trust me, you're not.
Timezone-wise though?
If you like it being dark by 4
Russia looks funny
I want more sun after my work. Local time zones don't make any sense.
And people wonder about Brexit