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• Timezone settings are locally adopted. • There is no world timezone authority. • In North America, timezone adoption can occur at the state/province, county or city. • There are a wide variety of local concerns which can drive a municipality to alter their timezone: • large events (e.g. the Commonwealth Games in Sydney), • voting (e.g.
