Friday, February 19, 2010

For Coopernicus


Click on the nice map and go to page 2 and voila! All is explained. I live on the turquoise-coloured island on the top right hand side.

A half hour time zone. Yep. One of two several on the planet. Really silly idea, isn't it? It's explained here.

7 Comments:

Blogger Erin said...

Who knew the Great Lakes were so pointy?

And furst for a Friday.

February 19, 2010 at 8:14 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who in the heck figured that out??? I mean why stop there? Let's play with everyone's minds...

It's 3:47 pm in Detroit and 6:53 am in Montreal...

who'd a thunk it? Thanx for the map...

February 20, 2010 at 1:40 a.m.  
Blogger Richard Wintle said...

So where in the heck is the *other* one? Papua New Guinea?

P.S. Erin - the pointiest bits are in Canada, not the US. 100% fact.

February 20, 2010 at 10:35 p.m.  
Blogger WrathofDawn said...

I stand corrected there are more than two offset time zones. Go here for more info.

February 20, 2010 at 10:54 p.m.  
Blogger TRT said...

Did they include that extra half-hour in the day so that you have time to shovel snow?

February 22, 2010 at 6:00 a.m.  
Blogger Erin said...

TRT - no, extra drinking. Of course!

February 22, 2010 at 8:02 a.m.  
Blogger WrathofDawn said...

Sadly, there is no extra half hour. We just get to experience it sooner than the rest of North America.

February 26, 2010 at 10:53 p.m.  

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