drewtoothpaste.bsky.socialthis looks like i made it up but it's the time zone map for australia. yes, time zones should be divided by longitude, not latitude, but australia has done both, in the most annoying way possible (by adding half hours)
Pile Of Garbage@drewtoothpaste hell yeah our time zones are cooked (+8 crew represent)
@drewtoothpaste oh also every now and then the states decide to spice things up by temporarily introducing DST for a year and then getting rid of it again. theyve done it like 3 times in WA lol
Ben Donsky@pileofgarbage @drewtoothpaste are there any towns near the 8/10.5 border? In the US there are communities that straddle two time zones and it can be confusing but a 2.5 hour difference seems both comedic and chaotic. Great way to get around breakfast menu time restrictions, too.
@bdonsky @drewtoothpaste Yeah there are some towns very close to the borders however they're all deep in regional/rural Australia where people don't work white-collar office jobs and thus don't have to care about time zones.
@bdonsky @drewtoothpaste Oh also they're not particularly large towns because almost all of Australia's population is on the coasts.
Ken Butler has moved@drewtoothpaste "because 8, 9, 10 was too obvious"
Pat Reynolds@drewtoothpaste
I can think of something more annoying by additionally using the variables inherent in one (or more!) seasonal times.
I can think of something more annoying by additionally using the variables inherent in one (or more!) seasonal times.
Nameless_forevermore@drewtoothpaste wtf were they thinking?
Veebs@drewtoothpaste its like they saw an old witch doing some bone scrying and said "alright boys get the map i think we've got it"
Gorgeous na Shock!@drewtoothpaste There should be a timezone that's negative, too. So 12 am and pm are reversed and 12 pm is the dead of night and 12 am is high noon.
Len@drewtoothpaste that map is during summer. The particular lunacy is because some states have daylight savings (eg those South-East ones) and some do not (eg the North-East one).
Also, annoyingly, Western Australia doesn't do daylight savings either, so sometimes I'm 3 hours away from my family there and sometimes 2 hours.
@drewtoothpaste it is in fact only three time zones in winter, which makes a lot more sense.
But whether we all keep it or all ditch it, I wish we'd bloody standardise, because it's a pain in the arse having the time change between states!
ricardo_b@drewtoothpaste here, have another one: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/acwst
andwhyisit@drewtoothpaste That +11 is incorrect. It is +10 with 1 hour daylight savings. The 10.5 is also incorrect. It's 9.5 with daylight savings. So you need to understand that timezones aren't split by latitude like you thought. DST aside, everything in the middle plus is +9.5, everything to the east is +10, and almost everything to the west is +8 (there is one really tiny exception on the wa/sa border).
Cat@drewtoothpaste loooooooool it's true. I looked it up immediately before taking a trip to various parts of Australia not expecting ... anything like this
@catmisgivings @drewtoothpaste It isn't entirely true. The +11 and +10.5 on that map are actually +10 with DST, and +9.5 with DST respectively.
Without DST the map looks like this:
europlus 
@drewtoothpaste latitudinal differential due to DST use or lack thereof. NT/SA currently aligned, as are eastern states. So in some ways, it’s even messier as we go through the year…
ticho@drewtoothpaste The only thing that's missing here is different timezones depending on altitude. 😆