9/ Time can be a very political. Spain 🇪🇸 currently...

9/ Time can be a very political.

Spain 🇪🇸 currently uses Central European Time, a change made by dictator Franco in 1940 to align with Nazi Germany. The change was never reverted and has become subject to much debate.

Some feel this causes Spain’s “late-night culture,” and are pushing for a change to boost productivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Spain#Criticism_of_the_use_of_Central_European_Time

Portugal 🇵🇹 actually switched to CET in the early 90s but then reverted due to public dissatisfaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Portugal#Switch_to_Central_European_Time

#geoweirdness

Like 19 July at 10:52 | Open on en.osm.town

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OpenCage 👉🌍

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Antarctica

#geoweirdness

19 July at 10:53 | Open on en.osm.town

OpenCage 👉🌍

11/ ⌛Time’s almost up on this thread (sorry 😂).

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

https://opencagedata.com/api#timezone

19 July at 10:55 | Open on en.osm.town

OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

12/ We hope you enjoyed our look at the #geoweirdness of time zones 🕘🕥🕢.

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

https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads

19 July at 10:59 | Open on en.osm.town