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[–] 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.