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The reason why the time zone lines follow irregular paths rather than straight lines, is to allow a number of small countries and islands to maintain a single time zone rather than being divided by these time zone lines. If an island is not very large, it just seems silly and a needless bother to have two time zones. So we just route the time zone line around it.

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