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Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone


Timezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them.

This calendar system is pretty much good enough, and barring any rationalist coups d’etat, is the one we’ll be stuck with for a long time. Watch the Earth rotate, and report back on their findings Break Wikipedia’s CSS with their long name All of Europe (idk whether this is an EU/EEZ/EFTA/CoE thing) syncs up their daylight savings, except for Iceland, which doesn’t do DST at all ( Atlantic/Reykjavik, which is technically an alias for Africa/Abidjan, is basically just UTC; their rule string is just GMT0).

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