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Follow Twitter Instagram Facebook. Why do we have different time zones? How long does it take the Earth to make one full rotation on its axis? What is the prime meridian? Wonder What's Next? Try It Out Are you ready to time travel? Find a friend or family member to help you check out the following activities: Ready, set, glow! Let's find out who's sleeping when you're having lunch. Grab a globe and a desk lamp, and let's get glowing. Don't have a globe? No problem! Use a ball or any object shaped like a sphere.
Set the globe and sphere on a flat surface directly across from the desk lamp. The lamp will represent the Sun. Turn down all the other lights in the room. Begin by locating Greenwich on the globe or any point on the sphere. Aim the light directly at Greenwich. This represents noon, the brightest time of day. The opposite side of the globe or sphere is farthest from the sun, which also makes it the darkest.
This represents midnight. Now find your hometown on the globe or any other point on the sphere. Rotate the globe so your hometown is pointed directly at the Sun. Look at the opposite side of the globe. When it is noon in your location, where is it the middle of the night? Curious to know exactly how time zones differ around the globe?
Jump online to check out this cool Time Zone Map. Hover your mouse over different parts of the map. Does anything surprise about how the continents and countries are divided into time zones?
Can you find where you live on the map? How many hours apart are you from the place you'd most like to visit? Want to dive deeper into time zones? Otherwise, Antarctica would be divided into 24 very thin time zones! The time zones of the United States are standardized by Congress and although the lines were drawn to avoid populated areas, sometimes they've been moved to avoid complications.
There are nine time zones in the U. With the growth of the Internet and global communication and commerce, some have advocated a new worldwide time system. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content.
Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Shifting our gaze over centuries from celestial spheres to the smallest slivers of matter, we have become timekeepers of extraordinary precision.
Indeed, our sense of time has everything to do with how we relate to one another and understand our place in the universe. Judeo-Christian societies learned to perceive historical time as linear and unidirectional because of a particular story they told themselves about the fate of humankind.
The Inca and the Mayans drew different cosmologies from different tales, cyclical and continuous. Time, in other words, has always been a product of the human imagination—and a source of tremendous political power. Julius Caesar knew this when he reshuffled the Roman calendar in 46 B. Joseph Stalin thought the weekend was a bourgeois luxury; he abolished it in in a bid to transform ordinary Russians into good Communists. Our modern timekeeping regime was born at the end of the 19th century.
It was also a moment of great technological progress. Railways, steamships, subways, telephones, and radio thundered into existence all at once, collapsing distance and compressing time in ways that dazzled and disoriented. Technology also forced greater precision of calculation and measurement. Many Westerners felt that globalization required more accurate and predictable ways of measuring time. Timekeeping was a messy and bewildering business in most parts of the 19th-century world.
American railways recognized 75 different local times in ; three of those were in Chicago alone. In Germany, travellers had to clarify whether departures were according to Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Ludwigshafen, or Frankfurt time. By the end of the century, this maddening variety of competing local times was making it difficult to transport everything from spices to armies. Clashing calendars made the headaches even worse.
Until revolutionaries jettisoned the Julian calendar in , Russia was 13 days behind western Europe. Before , the Chinese had five time zones, but after the Communist Party came to power in the government required the entire country to operate on Beijing Standard Time for the sake of national unity. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you.
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