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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    3 months ago

    He was the king. He had the power to make people spend less time each day doing activities-other-than-hunting rather than force them to wake up earlier by doing this time zone nonsense.

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      3 months ago

      Don’t take my explanation for an endorsement, I’ve no love for DST either