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Andy Woodruff
Personal blog · andywoodruff.com/blogdesignscience
Andy Woodruff writes Cartogrammar, a personal blog at andywoodruff.com about design and science. Since 2015, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andy Woodruff's interactive maps and charts, mainly the daylight saving sunrise and sunset visualization, plus an eclipse timing map and a map of latitude and longitude lines crossing countries.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The website and blog of Andy Woodruff, a cartographer specializing in interactive maps.
Most-linked posts?
- Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-11-23
- What’s really across the ocean from you when you look straight out?6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-03-29
- Eclipse 20243 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-10-06
- Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it – Andy Woodruff2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-19
What Hacker News says?
http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-t... has a nice interactive viz for # of days a place has a sunrise/sunset before/after a certain time with or without DST.
Comment linking /blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
on “US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent”Submitted Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it as a story · 119 points
HN discussionThank you for answering. Now let's discuss this answer. The first question is: which specific time ? This time will differ based on the timezone and geography. Because of timezones, sunrise time effectively makes a one-hour jump at the transition points, which makes this chart of yours look different for people living living close to timezone border vs. someone living in the center. To that end, which time zone and…
Comment linking /blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
on “EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019”Submitted FlightAware Map Design (2024) as a story · 102 points
HN discussionHere’s a good visual way of exploring that: http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-t...
Comment linking /blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
on “U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings time permanent”Submitted Eclipse 2024 as a story · 28 points
HN discussionThat saying is also oddly appropriate here because the joke for anyone who lived in boston is that the city is built on paved-over cow paths. (yes yes fun-police, it's actually a myth https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/03/06/boston-street... but the truth of it being a bunch of ad-hoc cities that coalesced into one entity isn't too far off from the truth. My favorite bit of Boston artwork is road silhouettes o…
Comment linking /blog/boston-squared/
on “What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (2018)”Submitted What’s really across the ocean from you when you look straight out? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReally depends where you are on the globe in terms of latitude. Russia is a gargantuan country that currently spans 12 time zones, I don't think there's a single solution that can cover it, especially given that the southernmost portions of the country (mainland) are around 41° and the northernmost parts are around 77°N. I think the US tends to be much simpler in this regard (49°N-24°N - contiguous states). It seems…
Comment linking /blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
on “Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes”Submitted Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is why we still use it. http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-t...
Comment linking /blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
on “Egypt cancelled DST”Submitted At the beach, where is the opposite coast? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEnjoy! http://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-sea/
Comment linking /blog/beyond-the-sea/
on “Which lines of longitude and latitude pass through the most countries?”Submitted Beyond the Sea as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMost of the world tends to prefer to not be too far from the center of the timezone (where solar noon matches solar time in standard time). Geographic and political boundaries make it so that often it's more red. The extremes of north and south tend not to care as much because it doesn't matter as much. https://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-...
Comment linking /blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
on “British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time”Submitted Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it – Andy Woodruff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis one has a good scrolling time and totality map: https://andywoodruff.com/posts/2023/eclipse-2024/
Comment linking /posts/2023/eclipse-2024/
on “Eclipse Timing Information”Submitted Eclipse 2024 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solar Eclipse 2024 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond the sea as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond the sea: What’s across the ocean from you when you look straight out? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond the sea – what's on the other side of the ocean from any point on a beach as a story · 1 points
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