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Why? Every single time I look on a map, the American continent is in the centre. It only makes sense to use PDT as the only correct timezone. /s

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I know you're being sarcastic, but funny how "localization" affects our perceived reality, looking it up there are also China-centric maps[1], so most Chinese students probably think all world maps are like that.

AFAIK most maps I've seen have the longitude 180 degrees West at the left edge, and 180 degrees East on the right.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-our-world-map-made-to-look-li...

holy shit

I weren't aware of that

It's weird af that I've never saw map where America/Asia is in the center

It's also rare to see maps where south is at the top, but that's also an arbitrary decision. North isn't "up" any more than south is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-up_map_orientation

This is giving me serious headache.

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