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.

Sandford Fleming birthday: Google Doodle pays tribute to man who proposed world wide time zones. Scottish-Canadian inventor and engineer shaped the way we tell the time ...

The groundwork for a system of global time zones was laid at the International Meridian Conference of 1884. But it took several decades to be adopted around the world.