On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 01:13:27PM -0500, Robert Tonkavich wrote: > There are only 24 Time Zones that Encompass the Earth. Is 780 files > overboard? > > I think Yes.
This is completely inaccurate. Time zones were not devised by drawing equally-spaced meridian lines along the globe. They were invented by political entities. They aren't static, either -- they change from time to time, as political regimes change. Time zones are not tied to the geography of the earth, nor even to political boundaries. There are places that have two competing time zones, one time zone for some of the people living there, and another for the rest of the people living there. Time zones aren't guaranteed to deviate from UTC by an integral number of hours. There are some that are off by a fraction of an hour. There are time zones pairings that differ from each other part of the year, and concide with each other the rest of the year. Try to think of the strangest, most obtuse, most ridiculous rules you can -- real time zones are WORSE than that.
