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Is it bad for people in part of a country that reaches into a different time zone since they'd start their day earlier than they should?
If you look at a map of the time zones, certain countries stretch a time zone's boundaries right around itself so that the entire country can use the one time zone (eg. Greenland, China). However then the extreme ends of those countries can stretch right across into what should be the territory of other adjacent time zones. So it would be more accurate for those parts of that country to use those other nearby time zones instead. I do realise why they don't though, that it's obviously much more convenient for them to just use the one time zone for the whole country, and I'm not saying they should change it. But does it have any real-life adverse effects for the people in those parts of those countries due to their clock not matching up very well to the rising/setting of the sun?
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- DixonLv 71 year agoFavorite Answer
It only really happens in China and it is madness. People have to adjust to daylight locally and so everything happens at stupid times.
Greenland is tiny and it only looks big on a map due to being so far north.
- Anonymous1 year ago
Yes, getting up too early correlates with higher incidence of depression.
- ignoramusLv 71 year ago
Unless you live EXACTLY on the eastern edge of a time zone, (or the western edge), or wherever the defining line for the standard time of that zone is counted, EVERYONE in that time zone counts time either somewhat in advance or somewhat behind the "true" time.
It does not matter one iota what the "true" time is, as long as everyone within that zone observes the same "virtual" time. So it makes no difference if a particular time zone is extended a little beyond the standard limits. The observed time is only a fictional device to allow people to interact socially and economically in the most efficient way.
People who have to trade, or travel, or simply communicate between different countries in different time zones have no difficulty in observing the difference in time between the two. They simply remember to make an allowance for the difference.
