They misspoke and bizarrely doubled down when corrected, but they are touching upon an interesting fun fact. That it's always daytime somewhere in France.

I didn't realize French territory is so widespread.

So if the U.K. ever complies with the UN and the ICJ and relinquishes control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the sun will set on the British empire, but not on France.

That'll be funny as fuck and I hope France never misses an opportunity to point it out.

It is in the most timezones of any country, so I expect that that's the idea they were half-remembering

that's some dedication here

There's pretty much nothing right along the international date line, regardless of country. If you're trying to collect them all you better not care about +12 vs -12. As you can see your options are also limited for -1 and -2.

Unrelatedly, I'm curious what the story is with Central vs. Mountain time in Nunavut. That's quite the wasp-waist for such a vast, mostly empty area.