On 24/10/2015 15:22, Dan-George Uza wrote:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/02/21/how_wrong_is_your_time_zone_map_shows_how_far_ahead_or_behind_the_world.html Are you aware of any territories following official solar time?
Interesting question for which I do not know a definite answer, but I guess it would depend on how wide the territory is. If true solar time was used, then the West of the territory is going to run a different time to the East. Perhaps you could standardise country wide by using, uh, a time zone centred on your capital city. Greenwich to Trafalgar Square isn't very far so can we treat the UK as using a timezone based on noon in its capital? Not during Daylight Savings, though. As well, from the map you cited, Guyana look like it's fairly well centred to its natural noon.
For genuine local solar time, I'd like to think that there are indiginous peoples left in some parts of the world who don't need to live by the clock, rising with the dawn and bedding down with dusk.
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