Some of the grey answers which are filled in are islands rather than towns, however 'Chatham Islands' means a lot more to the vast majority of us than 'Waitangi' or 'Owenga'.
I'm glad you think so! It doesn't matter to me, how many people play these quizzes. If the people who play the quizzes are enjoying them, that is more important!! :)
Thank you! It wasn't the hardest map to make, as I simply redid a US government map which is in the public domain. Despite this, I'm pretty happy with the results.
Awesome, I agree! The one gnarly one for me was looking for Bangladesh's 3rd city, not realising Almaty way to the north-west was in the same time zone.
Thank you! It will be difficult to add time-zones directly onto the map (since there are time-zones such as those in Nepal, India, Newfoundland etc. which cover only a small area). I may look into colour coding the answer columns, however :)
Awesome quiz! I love everything about the map: the shadings, the borders, etc.
It really highlights the absurdity of time zones though. Like, I guess you could make the justification for large countries having their own time zone, but why do Afghanistan and Nepal need them? Why is Dhaka in the same time zone as Almaty, despite being significantly further to the east? Why does Central Australia have its own time zone even though it aligns perfectly with Tokyo's time zone? I don't expect you to know the answer to these questions, I just find it crazy that each country kinda does its own thing with time zones. It would make more sense in my opinion to have it standardized globally.
Honestly, it is one big mess and geopolitics/economics are often more important than actual sun time when timezones are chosen! A good example of this is Spain, who changed from Greenwich Mean Time (+0) to +1 in WWII as Francisco Franco wanted to be aligned with Germany's timezone. This means that in Galicia, Spain there is over a two hour difference between sun time and clock time.
Another problem is Daylight Savings Time. Yukon used to be green on the map like British Columbia, but when they scrapped DST they became in line with Alberta for half the year, even when Whitehorse is by far the westernmost city in Canada.
In Xinjiang, they officially follow the same timezone as Beijing (as does all of China). Since this is far off from sun time, there is an unofficial timezone called 'Xinjiang time' which is used by the ethnic Uyghur population, while Han Chinese people in Xinjiang still use Beijing time.
South Australia originally used +9 time zone (same as Tokyo) but in May 1899, South Australia advanced Central Standard Time by thirty minutes "after lobbying by businesses who wanted to be closer to Melbourne time and cricketers and footballers who wanted more daylight to practice in the evenings".
Glad to be one of the 6% who got Mount Gambier on this quiz!
Awesome quiz. Only suggestion, if it is possible, it would be helpful if the timezone was highlighted on the map as you scrolled over it. Or if it told what time zone your cursor was over. Just because the colors are so close it's difficult on the map to distinguish the zones.
Maybe it’s just me but I gave up on the third Pakistani city after I tried every large one I know, except Islamabad. Could we please accept Rawalpindi as that is the core city in the metro area according to most Jetpunk quizzes.
Great quiz! After I did an initial sweep through to get the obvious ones, it was challenging to work out which bits were actually the same time zone. I was reminded of all the questions on Quora premised on the belief you can convert between time zone and longitude. As this jumble shows, you definitely cannot. I managed to get every million plus city and almost all 100k plus ones.
Really fun quiz, congrats. Just a couple things: maybe change Nepal's colour as if you don't notice the border, it looks like its in India's time zone. Also, please accept Rawalpindi for Islamabad as it is the bigger city in the urban area.
Thank you for playing, Rawalpindi will work now! I'll see what I can do about the colours, I had a hard time choosing suitable colours that were somewhere between the main four pastel colours I chose :)
I think this is the first quiz I've seen where Corner Brook and Grand Falls-Windsor are up their right alongside cities like Tokyo and London. Well done!
Great quiz, but it could be visually "more friendly". The table of answers could have lines with different colors or thicker borders to better visually organize and separate each UTC. Plus: the time zones on the map are REALLY visually confusing! It would be awesome if the whole time zone column on the map changed color once you guess its three answers!
I hereby decorate you Supreme Cartographer of the Realm of JetPunk!
It really highlights the absurdity of time zones though. Like, I guess you could make the justification for large countries having their own time zone, but why do Afghanistan and Nepal need them? Why is Dhaka in the same time zone as Almaty, despite being significantly further to the east? Why does Central Australia have its own time zone even though it aligns perfectly with Tokyo's time zone? I don't expect you to know the answer to these questions, I just find it crazy that each country kinda does its own thing with time zones. It would make more sense in my opinion to have it standardized globally.
Honestly, it is one big mess and geopolitics/economics are often more important than actual sun time when timezones are chosen! A good example of this is Spain, who changed from Greenwich Mean Time (+0) to +1 in WWII as Francisco Franco wanted to be aligned with Germany's timezone. This means that in Galicia, Spain there is over a two hour difference between sun time and clock time.
Another problem is Daylight Savings Time. Yukon used to be green on the map like British Columbia, but when they scrapped DST they became in line with Alberta for half the year, even when Whitehorse is by far the westernmost city in Canada.
In Xinjiang, they officially follow the same timezone as Beijing (as does all of China). Since this is far off from sun time, there is an unofficial timezone called 'Xinjiang time' which is used by the ethnic Uyghur population, while Han Chinese people in Xinjiang still use Beijing time.
In short, it is madness!
Glad to be one of the 6% who got Mount Gambier on this quiz!
To be honest, I find the figures to be a little inflated but the source is pretty uniform across Jetpunk.