December 26, 2015 at 03:07In addition to Poland, they forgot Sakhalin!
In my five-year-old post “They Forgot Poland!” I told that in Windows 95 at first it was possible to select the time zone and regional settings by clicking on the world map, and the selected time zone and the selected country were highlighted.
Due to the instability of geographical borders, I had to abandon this idea: the maps were left, but the highlight of the selected region was removed. Probably, in this form - with cards, but without backlight, as in Win95 OSR2 and in Win98 - these two applets of the “control panel” were remembered by most users.
By 1997, Poland had merged with one of the neighboring time zones, so the “Polish time zone” ceased to exist. Due to the negligence of Windows programmers, who did not foresee that the number of time zones on the planet could change over time, with the disappearance of the Polish belt, the whole of Poland disappeared from the map.
You yourself can easily notice this difference in the screenshot above: there is Poland on the “regional settings map”, and on the “time zones map” the Baltic Sea “spilled” and it “flooded” it all.
In this form - with "flooded" Poland - the time zone map existed for another ten years, but no one noticed the shortage. Finally, in Windows Vista, the timezone map was permanently deleted without fixing it.
But this is not the only difference between the two cards! Take a look: the outlines of Kamchatka on these two maps are completely different! But Sakhalin on the map of time zones is not at all!
An island of slightly similar form appeared out of nowhere south of Japan; and judging by the time zone, it applies to Japan.
This screenshot is from the beta version of Windows 95, in which there was no support for Russian regional settings yet. The two cards already differ, although not as much as in the Win95 release; Sakhalin is not on either of the two maps, but the mysterious island arose only on the map of time zones.
xn__p2a has already noted Microsoft's special attitude towards the Far Eastern time zones:
Fortunately, by the time the Kamchatka belt was liquidated, Windows no longer had a time zone map, otherwise Kamchatka would go to the sea bottom after Poland.
Sakhalin was less fortunate - it was never on the timezone map in any version of Windows where such a map was.
And, unlike Poland, no one has ever noticed his shortage on the map.
Due to the instability of geographical borders, I had to abandon this idea: the maps were left, but the highlight of the selected region was removed. Probably, in this form - with cards, but without backlight, as in Win95 OSR2 and in Win98 - these two applets of the “control panel” were remembered by most users.
By 1997, Poland had merged with one of the neighboring time zones, so the “Polish time zone” ceased to exist. Due to the negligence of Windows programmers, who did not foresee that the number of time zones on the planet could change over time, with the disappearance of the Polish belt, the whole of Poland disappeared from the map.
You yourself can easily notice this difference in the screenshot above: there is Poland on the “regional settings map”, and on the “time zones map” the Baltic Sea “spilled” and it “flooded” it all.
In this form - with "flooded" Poland - the time zone map existed for another ten years, but no one noticed the shortage. Finally, in Windows Vista, the timezone map was permanently deleted without fixing it.
But this is not the only difference between the two cards! Take a look: the outlines of Kamchatka on these two maps are completely different! But Sakhalin on the map of time zones is not at all!
An island of slightly similar form appeared out of nowhere south of Japan; and judging by the time zone, it applies to Japan.
This screenshot is from the beta version of Windows 95, in which there was no support for Russian regional settings yet. The two cards already differ, although not as much as in the Win95 release; Sakhalin is not on either of the two maps, but the mysterious island arose only on the map of time zones.
xn__p2a has already noted Microsoft's special attitude towards the Far Eastern time zones:
Also, Windows did not have daylight saving time for the time zone of Magadan / Sakhalin (UTC + 11) and Kamchatka (UTC + 12). Those. throughout Russia, we have daylight saving time, and at the eastern end of the country, according to Microsoft, no matter how.
People from these regions either had to rearrange the neighboring time zone with their hands twice a year (when switching to daylight saving time and vice versa), or edit time zones in the system registry to add summertime support there.
Sometime in August 2009, an update was released for the Kamchatka time zone, which added daylight saving time there. But there has been no Kamchatka time zone since spring 2010 in Russia (Kamchatka switched to Magadan time).
And for the Magadan time zone, even by default there is still no summer time support by default, I don’t know for sure. You can try to select the time zone of Magadan in Windows with the latest updates and see if there will be a checkmark to set the daylight saving time.
Fortunately, by the time the Kamchatka belt was liquidated, Windows no longer had a time zone map, otherwise Kamchatka would go to the sea bottom after Poland.
Sakhalin was less fortunate - it was never on the timezone map in any version of Windows where such a map was.
And, unlike Poland, no one has ever noticed his shortage on the map.
