A brief history of time zones

by montse on March 24, 2011 · 0 comments

in Flash Journalism, Interactive Graphics, Multimedia Journalism

A brief history of time zones

Theoretically, the world should be divided into 24 equal time zones, in which each zone differs from the last by one hour. But as the years have passed, the world has turned into a much more complicated place.

Time zones are now much more irregular and sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected as they are by political, geographical and social changes in the real world.

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