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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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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_i…
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I think it's reasonable to interpret this as "How many distinct local times are there worldwide at this instant". Answer is still not 24.
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That seems like one of a few ways to look at it that doesn't require hours of puzzling over the definition of "time zone".
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right now I think it's -12 to +14, -9:30, -2:30, +4:30, +5:30, +5:45, +6:30, +8:30, +9:30, +10:30, +12:45... so 37.
Aug 18, 2017 · 4:04 AM UTC
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