Your school textbooks told you that every 15 degrees of longitude equals a neat, orderly 1-hour time zone. But look at North America's map—and you’ll see the textbooks lied.
How can Vancouver and Seattle share the exact same line of longitude, yet crossing the border creates a 1-hour time jump? Meanwhile, Calgary, Canada and Destin, Florida sit nearly 2,000 miles apart, yet their clocks tick at the exact same minute.
Before trains and factories, noon was simply when the sun hit its peak. Then railroad tycoons and corporate bosses carved daylight into rigid blocks, and bureaucratic lines took over.
Would you ditch man-made time zones to follow the sun again, or are we permanently locked into this artificial illusion? Drop your thoughts below! 👇
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