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Whatever the China Time zone is obviously.

My time zone of course!

I think it's depend of which kind of war. If it's obvious for everyone that "they is no way we can agree" from the beginning, so it's a nuclear preemptive strike from the first timezone aware of the rules. So Europe, China, India and Pakistan are close competitors. US have and Canada shall destroy itself, their nuclear capacities are spread across several "timezone interests". Funny enough, what may make the difference between Europe, China, India and Pakistan may be the hour when the situation declare itself. If the ruling class is asleep, officer may need to wait to wake them up, as it was during the 1983 false nuclear alarm

If it's not obvious that their is no way to make agreement, we may see an escalation of conflict, starting with soft and hard power. This scenario may be very close of the current relationships, and the winner may be the main imperialists power : Europe or the US In this scenario, it seems obvious that the US adopt one timezone, and make it adopt for every countries in the North and South America. It's next move would be to sabotage other negotiations. I didn't exclude Europe from the competitions, because the neo-colonial relationships may help the expand their timezone in their former colonies. What may make the differences is the attitude of UK and Russa. Depending if they adopt the European timezone or not.

I don't think the number of people involve in one timezone make a change; this is short term scenarios, and economic and diplomatic power seems unrelated with the population size

Either +1 or +8

That said all 4 in America could end life on earth

+9 appears to be currently shivving +10, so my money is with them

I may have misunderstood the assignment

China.

China's cheating, it's all crammed forcefully into one timezone, Beijing's!
In far western China in winter, it could be noon and the sun is barely rising over the horizon. Then in summer the sunset might be at around 1am.

I think there's going to be a multi-way tie as the nukes get launched...

There should be no time zones. We don't need them. It's 8pm, everywhere on Earth at the same time. Darkness is falling at 8pm in Dublin, but it's still sunny and bright at 8pm in New York. It would take some adjusting but would remove all of the logic and cost associated with timing a particular place.

Probably China. It’s one nation, full of industry and under a single leadership. They could produce whatever they needed. China is one time zone.

Next competitor is the slice encompassing a large number of countries in Africa as well as most of western Europe. Huge number of people and industries contained in that slice, but they lack common leadership.

The one with the entire country of china obviously

China.

Not even a question.

They have 1 time zone.

Kiribati wins!

They can just go back in time, DUH!

Definitely +8, they have like a third of the world's population.

The first to lose world be +8.25 they're at the bottom of Western Australia. There's roughly 12 people there unless Bruce is passing through. A fuck ton of emu war veterans though. From the side that won

The one with Hawaii could just pretend they've already been wiped out and wait for everyone else to destroy each other

Greenwich Mean Time.

Because it's mean.

They would all lose because they stretch all the way down into Antarctica which means that the penguins would be involved...

Wow is that map ever a trainwreck

But -5 stronk like bull

GMT-11 wins because nobody remembers to nuke them.

Any war with this many aggressors who were all opposed to each other absolutely would just look like everyone killing each other at random. Even without nukes, it would be madness on a scale never before seen, resulting in a quieter, nay sleepier world.

UTC obviously.

US and Russia would tear themselves apart internally. That leaves China with the largest functioning army, vs the EU if they can mobilize fast enough

Poor Newfoundland

+8 or +1 (don't forget Nigeria)

It would result in the total collapse of the entire time zone system. Every location would switch to local solar time and the war would be over.

When those areas need to communicate with each other, they would develop a new global time system that simply counts seconds from a particular moment in time. Sort of like unix time, but with the epoch set to the moment the new system was launched.

Australians, because they live in the future. Theyll fuck you up yesterday.

+12 would just ignore you all