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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    2 months ago

    It works because certain numbers are socially ingrained. For example 8 a.m. is the normal time schools start here