The text boxes below have been placed in a random order. Reorder the paragraphs.

(A) This is because it chops the world up equally by longitude, without regard to the reality of either political divisions or the changing seasons.

(B) This is somewhat surprising given the London Underground’s historic difficulty in grasping the concept of punctuality.

(C) For as long as I can remember, there has been a map in the ticket hall of Piccadilly Circus tube station supposedly showing night and day across the time zones of the world.

(D) But the map has always fascinated me, and still does, even though it now seems very primitive.