Map showing how far out you are from Solar time

A brilliant world map showing the difference between solar and standard time. There are many places in the world where the sun rises and sets late in the day,

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Stefano from The poor man’s math blog, noticed that near the winter solstice, Madrid’s sunset is around 17:55, more than an hour later than the sunset in, for example, Naples, which is at a similar latitude.

So he edited this world map from Wikipedia to show the difference between solar and standard time.

World map time zones

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via gizmodo

source The poor man’s math blog