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[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And France is the only one country that spans across all time zone on the globe.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 72 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

I'm pretty sure that French territory doesn't span all time zones on the globe.

hits Wikipedia

Yeah. They're in a lot, but certainly not all.

French territory:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France_in_the_World_(%2BAntarctica_claims).svg

Time zones:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/World_Time_Zones_Map.svg

Take, say, UTC+8, to pick one arbitrary zone.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They misspoke and bizarrely doubled down when corrected, but they are touching upon an interesting fun fact. That it's always daytime somewhere in France.

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The sun never sets on the French empire

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[Sad roast beef noises]

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

I didn't realize French territory is so widespread.

So if the U.K. ever complies with the UN and the ICJ and relinquishes control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the sun will set on the British empire, but not on France.

That'll be funny as fuck and I hope France never misses an opportunity to point it out.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 4 months ago

It is in the most timezones of any country, so I expect that that's the idea they were half-remembering

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

that's some dedication here

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's pretty much nothing right along the international date line, regardless of country. If you're trying to collect them all you better not care about +12 vs -12. As you can see your options are also limited for -1 and -2.

Unrelatedly, I'm curious what the story is with Central vs. Mountain time in Nunavut. That's quite the wasp-waist for such a vast, mostly empty area.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you’re trying to collect them all you better not care about +12 vs -12.

And thus it was that France invaded New Zealand's Chatham Islands and the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Instead of grabbing the Azores for UTC -1, France figured it would be easier to just annex all of Portugal. Brazil was reportedly grateful to no longer have a whole extra timezone for that one -2 island, and also glad to hear that they annexed Portugal.