No, no, THREE timezones cover North and South America, not two. There is an extra timezone to the East of Canada that the US doesn’t have that currently overlaps with Brazil Eastern. You’re missing a spot.
I mean, if you want to argue that Halifax overlapping Sao Paulo is the same as Iceland overlapping Mali maybe we can talk, but saying that only two timezones overlap between the two is not accurate.
And yeah, it’s about timezones, because timezones are not internationally determined and shift throughout the year. If you want to think about timezones as the UTC/GMT offset, then they change throughout the year due to countries doing daylight savings inconsistently. But the only way to think about them otherwise is via country codes (so the UK is always on BST as opposed to GMT +0 in winter and +1 in summer) and then it’s a mostly arbitrary mess. Countries aren’t mandated to stick to an internationally recognized timezone, not every country needs to line up with another country just because they’re generally in the same spot.
I’m unreasonably invested in this, because I’m one hour closer to PST for four blissful weeks of the year and depending on what year (and country) you catch me it’s the difference between leaving work on a sunny afternoon or in the dead of night.
there is an extra timezone to the East of Canada that the US doesn’t have that currently overlaps with Brazil Eastern. You’re missing a spot.
I mean, if you want to argue that Halifax
That spot is Labrador and Newfoundland, not Nova Scotia (where Halifax is located). Labrador and Newfoundland are islands, not mainland, and not even as significant as the British Isles. They’re like Hawai’i which I also didn’t count.
You are, again, factually incorrect. Dude, it’s fine, you missed a spot, it’s not the end of the world.
It is, as of this writing, 06:32 in Halifax.
It is, as of this writing, 06:33 in Sao Paulo. Took me a minute to look it up.
This is easily available information. All I did at the top of this thread is pull a real time timezone map. I didn’t know this off the top of my head, obviously, I’m not THAT much of a nerd.
You were ever so slightly wrong on the internet. On a technicality. It happens. It didn’t need to be a flame war.
No, no, THREE timezones cover North and South America, not two. There is an extra timezone to the East of Canada that the US doesn’t have that currently overlaps with Brazil Eastern. You’re missing a spot.
I mean, if you want to argue that Halifax overlapping Sao Paulo is the same as Iceland overlapping Mali maybe we can talk, but saying that only two timezones overlap between the two is not accurate.
And yeah, it’s about timezones, because timezones are not internationally determined and shift throughout the year. If you want to think about timezones as the UTC/GMT offset, then they change throughout the year due to countries doing daylight savings inconsistently. But the only way to think about them otherwise is via country codes (so the UK is always on BST as opposed to GMT +0 in winter and +1 in summer) and then it’s a mostly arbitrary mess. Countries aren’t mandated to stick to an internationally recognized timezone, not every country needs to line up with another country just because they’re generally in the same spot.
I’m unreasonably invested in this, because I’m one hour closer to PST for four blissful weeks of the year and depending on what year (and country) you catch me it’s the difference between leaving work on a sunny afternoon or in the dead of night.
That spot is Labrador and Newfoundland, not Nova Scotia (where Halifax is located). Labrador and Newfoundland are islands, not mainland, and not even as significant as the British Isles. They’re like Hawai’i which I also didn’t count.
Exactly. And I need my energy elsewhere. Bye.
You are, again, factually incorrect. Dude, it’s fine, you missed a spot, it’s not the end of the world.
It is, as of this writing, 06:32 in Halifax.
It is, as of this writing, 06:33 in Sao Paulo. Took me a minute to look it up.
This is easily available information. All I did at the top of this thread is pull a real time timezone map. I didn’t know this off the top of my head, obviously, I’m not THAT much of a nerd.
You were ever so slightly wrong on the internet. On a technicality. It happens. It didn’t need to be a flame war.