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Originally Posted by meeera
Why would free travel and timezones be connected? Mainland Australia has five timezones, more if you count the little niche ones like Central Western, with no travel restrictions at all. As I said, there are _towns_ with more than one timezone.
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Ah, but people on both sides of the Rabbit Fence didn't shoot each other because they preferred one side or the other.
Actually it's not comparable at all. Look at a map of the Island of Ireland with the British invented border in 1921, about 5 years after DST invented and about 80 years after Railway time ended separate English and Irish time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time
Also the UK had only existed for about 40 years when railway time leading to GMT for the entire British Isles. (called "These Islands" in the 1998 GFA, though British predates England ruling anything).
Brittany = Little Britain.
Great Britain was only Geography before 1707
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707