There's a fairly large .png linked from the article ("Click here for larger 
version")

Dave

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> On Oct 24, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Donald Christensen <[email protected]> 
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> I love that time zone map! does anyone know where I can download the jpeg 
> file?
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> Cheers
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>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Steve Lelievre 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Steve
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