The Poland thing is pretty minor in comparison to cutting the entirely of Asia in half instead of splitting one of the massive oceans. Did they just want to put the Americas in the middle?
That was only true for Windows 95 and 98 (likely ME as well, but I don’t know). As of Windows 2000 and later, the map is fixed in place and for whatever reason (probably inconvenient to update), they dropped the click on the map to select time zone feature, which was also the feature that centered the selected time zone.
You do make a good point. It would make more sense to put the GMT time zone in the center. I may eventually patch it again someday to shift GMT to center.
The Poland thing is pretty minor in comparison to cutting the entirely of Asia in half instead of splitting one of the massive oceans. Did they just want to put the Americas in the middle?
US centric maps are a thing, because you know, murrica number one
I know that everywhere tends to put themselves in the middle, but it’s still pretty jarring to look at!
I think that map centered on the area you selected.
Well that makes much more sense!
That was only true for Windows 95 and 98 (likely ME as well, but I don’t know). As of Windows 2000 and later, the map is fixed in place and for whatever reason (probably inconvenient to update), they dropped the click on the map to select time zone feature, which was also the feature that centered the selected time zone.
You do make a good point. It would make more sense to put the GMT time zone in the center. I may eventually patch it again someday to shift GMT to center.