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 7/ There are some places on Earth where three time zones meet in a single point. The most well known spots are possibly in π¦πΊ Australia's outback. Readers who enjoy a bit of postcode madness with their time zone oddities (who doesn't) will particularly enjoy Australian postcode "0872" which spans multiple timezones as it covers parts of South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. 5 comments
10/ Antarctica sits on every longitudinal line and thus in theory uses every time zone. In practice each research station chooses a timezone to use. 11/ βTimeβs almost up on this thread (sorry π). As members of the geosphere will be well aware, geo extends far beyond cartography and mapping. As the saying goes "Everything happens somewhere", but the next question is usually "When?" Which is precisely why we return timezone information as an "annotation" in our geocoding API results 12/ We hope you enjoyed our look at the #geoweirdness of time zones ππ₯π’. Thanks for reading and sharing. What other strange time zone examples did we overlook? We have many more threads about specific countries and regions, border disputes, geocoding, etc over on our blog, enjoy |
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8/ Time zones and especially DST rules change frequently. And sometimes with only minimal notice!
Last year there was major confusion in Lebanon π±π§ due to last-minute (pun intended) disagreement as to wether to follow DST or not.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65079574
In 2011 Samoa πΌπΈ shifted from one side of the International Date Line to the other, skipping the entire calendar day of Friday, 30 December 2011 in the process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Samoa#2011_time_zone_change
#geoweirdness
8/ Time zones and especially DST rules change frequently. And sometimes with only minimal notice!
Last year there was major confusion in Lebanon π±π§ due to last-minute (pun intended) disagreement as to wether to follow DST or not.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65079574
In 2011 Samoa πΌπΈ shifted from one side of the International Date Line to the other, skipping the entire calendar day of Friday, 30 December 2011 in the process