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With so many people living all over the world and with so much of our planet consisting of water, if you had to make a guess at the world time zone in which most people live, where do you imagine it would be?
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You not only have to balance out water and land versus population, but also where those populations actually exist, that is to say that while it's fine to say that Australia only has 21 million people as the Australian Bureau of Statistics is now claiming, the majority live along the coastal areas due to the inhospitable nature of Australia's arid interior.

Considering the overall size of Australia, it is the complete antithesis of places such as the United Kingdom where just under 61 million people live in an area of land that could easily fit into Australia many times over.

The answer is believed to be GMT 8 which includes areas such as Taiwan, China and Malaysia. Almost a quarter of the world's population, close to 1,375 million people live throughout this time zone.
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Still On Hiatus

November 5th 2007 10:47
Hi all, thanks to our internet provider who has not been providing internet, our temporary hiatus has become much longer than expected. I've managed to squeeze a few moments out of somebody else's internet for this post, but I won't have much more for at the earliest half a week, but hopefully by this time next week at least.

So the facts I give today will be a brief fun-down of where we're at personally.

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I'm sure most (if not all) of you have cottoned onto the real story behind yesterdays post. Indeed there is nothing actually wrong with the skywalk. (Yes, it is real the only fabrication was the closing down again part.) So after yesterdays post I thought enlighten you with some other April fools day pranks of the past.

* The Guardian printed a supplement in 1977 praising the location of a fictional resort - San Serriffe, its two main islands (Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse), its capital (Bodoni), and its leader (General Pica). Intrigued readers were later disappointed to learn that San Serriffe (sans serif) did not exist except as references to typeface terminology.
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Previous Daylight Saving Time Issues

March 23rd 2007 00:25
With Daylight Saving Time ending this weekend for some states of Australia, (That’s right boys and girls – be prepared to put your watches and clocks BACKWARDS one hour.)
daylight savings clock
I thought I’d remind you all of some relevant mishaps that can be found at webexhibits.org.
These are occasions when Daylight Saving Time caused slightly more than an issue or two due to the actual changing of the time.

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