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I'm pretty sure that French territory doesn't span all time zones on the globe.
hits Wikipedia
Yeah. They're in a lot, but certainly not all.
French territory:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France_in_the_World_(%2BAntarctica_claims).svg
Time zones:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/World_Time_Zones_Map.svg
Take, say, UTC+8, to pick one arbitrary zone.
If you‘re so picky, I‘ll as well. I wrote it spans across, not includes all.
So you only need 2 areas in 2 time zones and boom you span all of them? How would you define "span" for something like this on a globe?
Yeah, agreed. Span = bridge. It's gotta be contiguous across all timezones. Otherwise it's a fact that France exists in many timezones, but not all.
Still an impressive graphic.