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 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.

Time zones are strange old things, especially the way they prescribe one time to thousands of miles of land mass—so this visualization shows which parts of the world experience unusually early ...

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 ...