If youβre implementing a timezone selector after handling all continents, oceans, and pseudo-macro regionsβ¦ donβt forget BΓΌsingen am Hochrhein π https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein
A tiny German town of fewer than 1,500 people, completely surrounded by Switzerland.
Fun historical timezone trivia:
BΓΌsingen is associated with Europe/Zurich instead of Europe/Berlin.
Why? In 1980, West Germany introduced DST, but Switzerland initially did not. For a few months:
Germany was UTC+2
Switzerland stayed UTC+1
and BΓΌsingen followed Swiss time to avoid daily chaos with the surrounding area.
That historical difference is still reflected in the tz database today.
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