Branden Rishel created this map showing only the world’s time zones — without any of the land underneath. It highlights just how unusual these artificial boundaries can be: Just the time zones.

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The groundwork for a system of global time zones was laid at the International Meridian Conference of 1884. But it took several decades to be adopted around the world. With no international body ...

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Time zones are strange old things, especially the way they prescribe one time to thousands of miles of land mass—so this visualization shows which parts of the world experience unusually early ...

Sonic Frontiers director Morio Kishimoto has explained what the game's "Open Zone" structure really means.

The map above shows the 24 time zones across the world. Different places in the world have different times. This is why the world is divided into 24 different time zones. One for each hour in a day.