Only 50? The country spans almost 110° longitude, from West Quoddy Head lighthouse in Maine (66 degrees 57 minutes west.) to Cape Wrangell on Attu Island, Alaska (172 degrees 27 minutes east.)
That's nearly 1/3 of the globe. So why not ~450 down-to-the-minute timezones? Or, why not subdivide those into 28,000 down-to-the second timezones?
How would we ever ensure that all those times were universally coordinated?
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Only 50? The country spans almost 110° longitude, from West Quoddy Head lighthouse in Maine (66 degrees 57 minutes west.) to Cape Wrangell on Attu Island, Alaska (172 degrees 27 minutes east.)
That's nearly 1/3 of the globe. So why not ~450 down-to-the-minute timezones? Or, why not subdivide those into 28,000 down-to-the second timezones?
How would we ever ensure that all those times were universally coordinated?
Bonus question: What timezone is the moon?
To say nothing of Hawaii...
Funnily enough, the Hawaiian time zone is an hour past the single Alaskan one is still further East than some of the Aleutian islands.