Development statistics for the 5.0 kernel

> East of the Prime Meridian? I don't think so!

I'm not sure I'm following your reasoning here.

The graph shows a lot of changesets from timezones 0, +1 and +2. When the author says "it seems clear that an awful lot of kernel work still happens at or just east of the Prime Meridian", it appears therefore to me he means, very roughly speaking, 0 is at the Prime Meridian and +1 and +2 are just east from it.

But even if we look closer and watch at the geography of these time zones, the statement still holds.

Timezones +1 and +2 are mostly east of Greenwich in winter, and even in summer a large part of +2 is east of Greenwich (in Europe, +2 in summer is CEST. That excludes Portugal, UK, Ireland, Iceland and Greese but includes the rest of Southern and Western Europe and most of Northern and Central Europe. A lot of that is east of Greenwich.

Quite some of the changesets from zones 0 and +1 probably come from west of Greenwich, but even so I imagine part of that is covered by "at the Prime Meridian" (not *exactly at* of course: the line is infinitesimally thin).

It appears that in Africa there is also a lot of land around those longitudes. South Africa, for example is at UTC +2 and can be regarded "just east of the Prime Meridian".

So yes, I'd say a lot of kernel work happens at or just east of Greenwich (i.e. the Prime Meridian).

(For some pedantic nitpicking: Portugal is on Western European Time, but the rest of the Iberian Peninsula (i.e. Spain) is on Central European Time.)