Image caption The division of the world's time into different zones has been a messy affair. There is now Pyongyang Time to add to Greenwich Mean Time, Eastern Standard Time and Lord Howe Standard Time. Time zones are as much about politics, diplomacy and rebellion as they are about ... the time. The division of the world's time into neat longitudinal sections has been a messy affair.
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This is the story of humanity's endeavours to manipulate time. It is how 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time is also 22:30 in Lord Howe Standard Time (Lord Howe Island lies in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand), which is 17:14 on the moon in the (unofficial) Lunar Standard Time.
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Time Zones. Earth is split up into a number of time zones. Most time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC or GMT. In many locations these offsets vary twice yearly due to daylight saving time transitions.
http://24timezones.com/
By convention, the 24 main time zones on Earth compute their local time as an offset from UTC, each time zone boundary being ostensibly 15 degrees east or west of the preceding one. The reference point for UTC is the Greenwich Meridian (the Prime Meridian), which has a longitude of 0°.
http://24timezones.com/
While nearly all countries have hourly time zones-some are half-hourly-Nepal is one of only two places in the world that has a quarter hourly time zone, the other being the Chatham Islands (although Eucla in Western Australia unofficially uses GMT+8:45).
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Best Answer: There are currently 40 world time zones. There are 24 standard time zones plus up to 16 (or maybe more) areas of the world that that use time zones divided into 15-30-45 minute increments. China, about the size of the United States, uses the same time throughout the country even though it crosses 4 standard time zones.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090101180810AA7cHeA
03/08/16 23:21 (C1): Start of partial eclipse 03/09/16 00:23 (C2): Start of total eclipse 03/09/16 00:24 (*): Maximum eclipse 03/09/16 00:25 (C3): End of total eclipse 03/09/16 01:36 (C4): End of partial eclipse.
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
The time zone number indicates the number of hours by which Zone Time ahead of or behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time(GMT). - places are currently observing Daylight Saving Time (DST) / Summer Time.
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
Report Abuse. Wiki lists 40 time zones. It looks like three are offset by 45 minutes from a whole hour. However, there are at least 399 places (mostly countries) in the world that decide which time zone(s) they belong to, and they *could* invent their own time zone. Or the government that oversees them could do it.
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20:00, 17 Oct., 2015 New Zealand v France Select 12-hour or 24-hour time format. 13:00, 18 Oct., 2015 Ireland v Argentina Select 12-hour or 24-hour time format. 16:00, 18 Oct., 2015 Australia v Scotland Select 12-hour or 24-hour time format.
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how many time zones are in the world?
There are 24 time zones are in the World. There are 24 time zones in the world.