Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map?

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andy — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:15:00 GMT

Hah, Hillarious. Why can't we all just get along? Nice bit of trivia there, thanks.

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Steve — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 22:32:00 GMT

Raymond - Are you the guy who wrote the "stupid app of the day" emails during W'95 development?

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Prasenjeet Dutta — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 02:18:00 GMT

The newer Redhat graphical anaconda installers allow a fairly cool, and geo-politically neutral, way to select the timezone: the mouse snaps to the closest city available in tz database as you move over a world map. Always wished Windows had that feature.

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Samuel Neff — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 03:22:00 GMT

I honestly always wondered where that feature went. Glad to finally know!

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Seth Morabito — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:43:00 GMT

I _did_ always wonder what happened to that feature. It's a shame it disappeared, it was really a nice little touch. Thanks for clearing it up.

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dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:05:00 GMT

Hi - Maybe I'm being a little dense, and I dont really remember the map - But why would it have to show political boundries for setting the time? Couldnt it just be topological with the time boundries drawn on it? dave

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Brooks Moses — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:48:00 GMT

Why? Because time boundaries follow political boundaries, in most cases. The disputed India/Pakistan border is certainly one of these.

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w.h. — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:02:00 GMT

There was at least one case where a terrorist car bomb in Israel/Palestine went off at the wrong time because the Israelies and the palestinians don't change from standard to daylight savings and vice versa at the same date.

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evilbunny — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:20:00 GMT

I thought that car bomb thing was a joke, and ended up being an urban myth

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Ziktar — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:29:00 GMT

I launched the initial release of Windows 95 on one of my test machines here, and the Regional Settings map isn't clickable. My office mate (a Peruvian...) is trying to say that his country is innocent. So, I'm wondering, was the Regional Settings map only clickable on the Release Candidate then?

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richgi — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:57:00 GMT

Isn't this just a matter of localization? Provide a different world map for each country or region, showing how they see the world - just like language or currency symbol.

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Raymond Chen — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:09:00 GMT

We may have had time to pull the Peru/Ecuador issue in time for RTM. I know we didn't get the India/Pakistan one in time. If your officemate doubts me, you can go to the Wall Street Journal, August 24, 1995, "A Dispute Over India's Borders Had Microsoft Mapping a Retreat". The clickable map was pulled for all future releases because who knows what country will get upset next. (Also, because localizing bitmaps is really expensive.)

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Ziktar — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 03:43:00 GMT

Thanks, that's what I needed to hear. By the way, love the site, it's quite entertaining.

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George Tsiokos — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 06:25:00 GMT

I live in a country that does not have a problem with the borders. ENABLE THE “CLICK ON MAP” FEATURE IN ALL COUNTRIES WHO HAVE COMPLETELY UNDISPUTED BORDERS. ---- duh

RE: Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map?

Raymond Chen — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:14:00 GMT

Perhaps the border isn't under dispute today, but maybe at some point in the future there's a war and the borders change and now Windows is banned because it shows the old borders. (Did you know that the border between Connecticut and Rhode Island is under dispute?)

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George Tsiokos — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:54:00 GMT

Perhaps whats needed is a "web service" provided by Microsoft in which Windows connects and receives the most current undisputed borders on a daily/weekly basis.

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Andrew — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:55:00 GMT

I hope you're joking, George. That idea is insane!

Still, I did notice the absence of this feature in Windows 98 and above. How sad. I really loved the way it would scroll smoothly to whatever timezone you clicked, and ease into its new position. A really nifty piece of UI.

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Wes McGee — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 05:34:00 GMT

...but you do realize that since the company took out the ability to set time zones by using the map, that map is now useless and taking up valuable screen space... or at least making the date/time applet use one tab-sheet more than necessary. You can probably stick the time zone drop-down right underneath the calendar where it currently has a static message telling you what time zone you're currently using.

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Will — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:14:00 GMT

I really liked that map, always did wonder what happened to it. <sigh>

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