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Areas south of the Antarctic Circle experience extreme day-night cycles near the times of the June and December solstices, making it difficult to determine which time zone would be most appropriate. For practical purposes time zones are usually based on territorial claims; however, the time zone of their supply base is often utilised (e.g., McMurdo Station and Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station use New Zealand time due to their main supply base being Christchurch, New Zealand). In most areas south of 80 degrees latitude, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is assumed despite the limited presence of clocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Antarctica

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It looks like a beachball. Must be warm and sandy there. /s

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is once you climb over the giant ice wall hiding the flat earth.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They made a flat one too?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you speed up footage of the Earth's rotation shot at this angle, you get the Mac spinning beach ball of doom

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is the area around the south pole striped? The stripes aren't in the map legend.

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's Daylight Saving Times, as that area is McMurdo and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It sounds stupid to use DST in Antarctica, where half year is mostly darkness, half year is bright, they just simply use the time zone of the supporting country, here it's New Zealand

The Norwegian section also uses DST, but it's not official, hence it's not on this map:

The time zone where Troll is located, UTC+0, is 1 hours behind Norwegian time". Contacts with the Norwegian Polar Institute has revealed that they use UTC+2 (Norwegian DST) during the dark winter, for communication simplicity, since no airplanes fly anyway then)

[–] individual@toast.ooo 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they should have their own timezone

[–] FUsername@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you imagine this to be? One toggling between "always noon" and "don't care, dark anyways"?

[–] individual@toast.ooo 3 points 1 month ago

one for when its cold