Branden Rishel created this map showing only the world’s time zones — without any of the land underneath. It highlights just how unusual these artificial boundaries can be: Just the time zones.

The World Map: How Wrong Is Your Time Zone? By Joshua Keating. Feb 21, 2014 9:50 AM. Behind the times. ... On the opposite extreme is the eastern portion of India, which also has a single time zone.

For some locations around the world, the celebrations are over and it's now 2025. Just like there are time zones across the United States, there are time zones around the world to reflect the ...

North American railroads created time zones to bring sanity to scheduling transcontinental travel on this day in history, Nov. 18, 1883. The system was quickly adopted around the world.

The time-zone quandary is yet another stumbling block in U.N.-brokered peace talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that recently resumed after both sides rejected a reunification plan in 2004.

A person may take knowing the local time for granted, but an official review revealed that there is no single, accurate map showing the nation’s time zones and local observance of Daylight ...

Spain continues to use Central European Time when, by geography, it should be an hour earlier. General Francisco Franco, the country’s then-dictator, changed Spain’s time zone in 1940 to align ...