Honestly, we should just do it like the original model of zones worked: 1 time zone per zone of latitude, i.e. each time zone aligned with each 15-degree-apart meridian.
None of this “Oh we used to be part of [Input Empire Name Here] so let’s keep our time zones the same as them.” Damned colonial bullshit…
Edit: Longitude, not latitude. Lol. Was thinking it but wrote the opposite. Haha.
Hey, you don’t even need to be a part of [Input Empire Here], you can just be a Hitler megafan and change your time zone to impress Senpai (ahem, Spain)
Sorry, that’s what I meant. I was thinking of lines of longitude but said the opposite. Lol. My brain does that sometimes.
Yeah, being a former science teacher, correcting it was a knee-jerk reaction. :-)
It’s not all like that. Some just change to be able to do more business with their neighbours.
I particularly like China’s model where they just say fuck timezones and put the whole country on one single zone. Everyone is just aware that the sun rises at different times in different parts of the country.
