Pub quiz question, "How many time zones are there" Pub quiz answer: "24"
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I was still explaining to my fellow pub attendees about the complexities of time zones by the time the answer came around
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By the time the answer came around I had referred my friends to three distinct essays of mine on the topic
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I haven't checked ZoneInfo lately but I imagine the actual answer is well into three digits
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Not that there even is an official governing body for time zones
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If you genuinely think the answer is "24", which of UTC+12:00 and UTC-12:00 do you think exists and which doesn't? Why?
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Let me just phone up my colleagues in Bangalore (UTC+5:30) and let them know that they don't live in a time zone
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"No, it's not a time zone, it's just a region of the world where all the clocks are set identically"
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The state of Indiana alone has eleven documented time zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana#tz_database …
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Sad you didn't mention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B14:00 …
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I think we've established there are at least a hundred time zones I didn't mention
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