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Came here looking for a comment suggesting these discrepancies. I was not disappointed.

See also: “Falsehoods programmers believe about time”

https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...

Hey meaniehead... I added offsets to the hour hands for +30 and +45 timezones!

Can anyone recommend a book that discusses in depth all the peculiarities of timekeeping, time zones, historical efforts for measuring time, etc.? I would love to read something like that and I feel that there are many stories to be told.

It’s a long post, not a book but still a great resource on this topic:

https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right

You can see this by the position of the hour hands. The minute hand is “just” a convenience.

Another one for Nepal, they have an offset of 45 mins.

It appears the minute hand only reflects local time.

When I add time zones with fractional-hour offsets, the hour hand for those zones is at the appropriate angle within the indicated hour.

Also, Newfoundland and Labrador (GMT -3:30)

And South Australia