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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Probably UTC+1 as most of western Europe is in there, lots of people so more opportunities for me to make friends! Though UTC-8 has a lot of beautiful nature and the US west coast.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Also, checkout this cool population by time zone chart

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What the heck is that map projection? It's like Mercator on steroids.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Mercacator projection

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought Russia was one time zone

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

That was (edit:NOT) the USSR.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Weird, Iโ€™ve always thought that is was like China

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Weird, Iโ€™ve always thought that is was like China

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Weird, Iโ€™ve always thought that is was like China

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Weird, Iโ€™ve always thought that is was like China

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're right, I don't know what I was thinking. Other than "commies hate time zones."

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think we are both wrong, China has one time zone. Russia and USSR did not.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Same. Angola to Sweden - the variety of environments and food cultures are massive.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

In terms of practicality, probably UTC+0 since, after hardening my tech, it tends to be my default timezone when I'm browsing the net.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think I'd stay in UTC -5 because there's plenty here on the east coast of the US, can go to big cities, mountains, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico beaches; a lot of the populated part of Canada, Pacific coast in Peru.

I could make it the rest of my life with those options.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Good choice. I'm doing pretty good so far without ever leaving it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Cst. My current time zone, unfortunately life is to good here. Does that mean I can only exist half the year though? How does daylight savings interact with this

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

UTC + 10 is pretty good

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm assuming that you mean a "time period". Is that correct ?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad you thought of this, because I was very confused by this post. I thought the question was asking which group of countries you'd want to be allowed to visit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

You thought correctly. I did mean which time zone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'd say UTC-6. Mostly because that's where I and most of the people I know live. However, It's a bit limiting, only 3 big countries and some pacific Islands.

My second choice would be UTC 0, because I think it covers a lot of land

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The Party Time Zone