Update 2025-11-13: This project is no longer online. Essentially, it tried to get rid of timezones but only allowed whole-hour offsets. Original content follows.
Some hacker tried to interest us in their new project, and was quickly torn to pieces corrected on HN.
This got me thinking, how large a percentage of the world’s population can’t use this tool?
- Afghanistan, pop. 32.9M on UTC+04:30
- Central Australia (Northern Territory and South Australia), pop. 2.017M on UTC+09:30
- Central Western Standard Time (Eucla, Australia), pop. ~200 on UTC+08:45
- Chatham Islands, pop. ~600 on UTC+12:45
- India, pop. 1.353B on UTC+05:30
- Iran, pop. 83.1M on UTC+03:30
- Myanmar, pop. 55.6M on UTC+06:30
- Nepal, pop. 28M on UTC+05:45
- Newfoundland and Labrador, pop. 520k on UTC-03:30
That’s a total of 1.556B people, which is around 20% of the world’s population.
Needs more work.