stackyFACTSA tiny stretch of land in Western Australia known as Eucla runs on UTC+8:45. Instead of picking one of the existing regional clocks, a handful of residents essentially operate in their own temporal dimension just to make scheduling wildly inconvenient for outsiders.
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