At the end of the article, there’s this interesting fact:

King Edward VII invented his own timezone for the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk, in 1901 to squeeze in half-an-hour more hunting time each day

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    13 days ago

    “Invented” in the sense that Elon Musk “invents” things. Pure ruling elite folly.

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    Why didn’t they just adopt the standard Norfolk time zone of -40 years?