I thought I knew how time zones worked until I learned that India is 30 minutes

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Jan 20, 2020
11:42:52pm

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Different than a regular time zone.

What the heck?? Are they on Jeremy Bearimy time over there?

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I thought I knew how time zones worked until I learned that India is 30 minutes

More of a Jazz Fan

1/20/20 11:42pm

Newfoundland (the island) and central Australia, too.

Brisco

1/20/20 11:47pm

There is a long running joke in Canada: "The world will end at 12:00,

CanuckUte

1/21/20 8:33am

Parts of Nevada are in the Mountain Time Zone.

byubyu

1/20/20 11:58pm

And parts of Oregon are in the Mountain Time Zone, but that's not what Jazz Fan was talking about.

Brisco

1/21/20 12:01am

Part of Texas too.

Jeff75

1/21/20 6:04am

Parts of Idaho are in the Mountain Time Zone too.

TAMUCoug

1/21/20 6:22am

Lol, why wouldn’t they be Mtn?

Romex

1/21/20 7:18am

North Idaho in Pacific Time Zone to avoid one hour of contact with S. Idaho.

TAMUCoug

1/21/20 9:00am

Sun goes west about an hour per timezone

Wagon

1/21/20 12:21am

It allows their country to operate on a single time zone

kapcreations

1/21/20 3:52am

And Nepal to be different was 45 minutes off when I was there

Osteotome

1/21/20 5:18am

I thought it was 15?

coug almighty

1/21/20 6:20am

They GMT + 5:45 (or +6 -15 minutes)

Osteotome

1/21/20 7:28pm

Venezuela did the same thing while I was there

Cheesy Gordita

1/21/20 5:41am

Afghanistan is 30 minutes off just because they don’t want the same time zone as

macaroni

1/21/20 7:59am

I hated it b/c for some reason that 30min diff meant I could never figure out the time back home

byujag

1/21/20 8:48am

Here is a video about why timezones are jacked up

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