where are we?

I was reading a bit of the chronicles and I see where it says torn is located somewhere around the Texas Louisiana border. Well here is my problem. that timezone would be US central timezone GMT -6. But the in game time zone is simply GMT. Where are we? How can we be in 1 place with a completely different time? When Torn was surgically removed from the US was the entire city moved?

It's better to just nod and accept it. If you try to rationalize anything in Torn, you're going to hurt your brain.

We are all lost up the creek without a paddle on a kayak steered by a seizing, rabid beaver on speed.
Any other answer given is just propaganda.

While I agree with you both I need answers man

Its not GMT it's UTC

Also don't don't get vaccinated, it's how ched controlles u into believing his propaganda

UTC is a coordinated "universal time" gmt is a timezone. While they represent the same time, should torns time zone not be the timezone they say the city is located in? I mean we do call it torn city time.

Truly I just treat it as another way in which Torn city's denizens took to rebellion.
By using a time zone that makes no sense for it's location out of spite to the system.
After all it wouldn't be Torn if the people in it weren't rebelling against even time itself.

Ok, I didn't expect this good of an answer, and so choose to ignore its existence. I would give you kudos, but never saw this answer.. take my thumbs up

Can anyone offer better explanation?

At some point in Torn's history, everyone forgot to set their clocks. For years. Finally, someone emerged from their drug-addled haze long enough to wonder what time it was, only to find that there wasn't a clock in the city showing the correct time. Analogue clocks had wound down or drained their batteries. All they had were thousands of radios, microwaves and VCRs blinking 12:00.

It took some time for awareness of this collective lapse of timekeeping to spread, and even longer for enough citizens to care to do anything about it. Due to the isolation of the city, no one was really sure how to decide what time it should be.

Finally, 6 months later, a solution was reached through the thoughtful deliberation for which Torn's citizens are renowned: A radio DJ, heading into the second half of both his show and a bottle of tequila, lost his train of thought and stopped mid sentence. After a long, awkward, on-air silence he mumbled "f**k it, it's noon". On hearing those words, broadcast by absurd chance at exactly 12:00 UTC, Torn collectively shrugged, set their clocks, and Torn City Time was born.

Damn, I liked my explanation but yours is artwork.

Torn city while on the North American Continent is actually still part of the British Empire, though due to some quirk of politics only follows GMT for half of the year.

The answer is 42.

I can confirm that TCT is not quite GMT because I live in the UK and my time is TCT +1

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That's awesome! Thanks!

But what exactly is the question?