World Time Zones Map — Global Clock Data Relief

Design narrative Every time zone on Earth is represented as a raised tile whose height encodes the hour that zone reads at 12:00 UTC. Tiles form a 24-rung staircase running west to east; six colours group the rungs into four-hour blocks (Small Hours, Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Midnight). Zones with half- or quarter-hour offsets sit between rungs rather than being rounded. The shapes of zone boundaries—long straight cuts, stepped coastlines and jagged borders—are preserved by using Na…

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