I live in Trinidad and we are in the same timezone as the eastern united states even though geographically we are relatively far to the east of the eastern US.
How is it then that Jamaica, which is alot closer west to the eastern US in a different time zone (GMT-5) than for instance Florida (GMT-4) and is therefore 1 hour behind?
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Countries simply decide in which timezone they want to be. Usually that corresponds to their actual geographical location but there are exemptions.
E.g. China geographically spans from UTC +5 to UTC +9, but they decided to have the whole country on UTC +8, while neighboring Russia has different time zones for different regions.
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