World time

[SO16_Saint]

I'm probably being really dumb here but it's now 15:27 here (England) how can it be 19:57 there?

 

I thought time was only different in hours, not minutes too??

[hutch]

There are some parts of the world that work in 30 minute differences. India springs to mind. There are probably others.

[OttawaSaint]

Newfoundland is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead of us in Ottawa...

[SO16_Saint]

I never knew that.

 

Every day is a school day.

 

Amazing what you learn watching the athletics!

[anothersaintinsouthsea]

I think Nepal is even 15 minutes ahead of India

[Draino76]

I am a few hours behind most people.

[LGTL]

Must admit I didn't realise this until a few months ago. I walked into a hotel with a few clocks showing different times in cities across the world, and I thought one of them had stopped!

[buctootim]

It still 1987 in Eastleigh.

[Marsdinho]

Can you imagine trying to get territorial disputes to fit around time zones....

[BadgerBadger]

Back in the day, Britain use to have different time zones, Bristol was something like 10 minutes behind London................I'm sure there's a joke to be had there somewhere.

[Micky]

Funny you should start this thread today - I phone somebody in the Falkland Islands at about 10ish today and they weren't too happy about being worken up. Forgot they were 6 hours behind us...!!!

[Whitey Grandad]

We are Zulu time - GMT. India is Echo-Foxtrot time. Iran is 3.5 hours ahead and there are a lot of other anomalies concerning daylight-saving time (stupid name). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world

 

In Arizona the Navajo reservation observes DST but the rest of the state does not. In the middle of the reservation is the Hopi reservation, which follows the state. But...

 

'However, until very recently, Indiana was a state apart. Not only does the state cut across two time zones, some counties chose to observe DST while others chose not to which, in effect, meant that Indiana had three different "time zones". Since 2006, the entire state of Indiana now observes DST, although 18 counties remain on Central Time and the other 74 are on Eastern Time'

[ericofarabia]

I've not had sex since 1959 ... but there again its only just gone half past nine, so that's not too bad.

[Gingeletiss]

Each time zone is between two lines of longitude. Each of these 'time zones' can be broken down into minutes. So you could be really exact and work out your exact time ie Bristol would command a different time from London!

[Big John]

anyone remember the talking clock? what was the number we had to dial was it 6061?

[Hamilton Saint]

Each time zone is between two lines of longitude. Each of these 'time zones' can be broken down into minutes. So you could be really exact and work out your exact time ie Bristol would command a different time from London!

 

Not quite sure what you mean there. Each major time zone (usually a difference of an hour) comprises 15 degrees of longitude - that's 15 lines of longitude. A difference of one degree, therefore, is 4 minutes. Bristol is roughly 2.5 degrees west of the prime meridian - making it 10 minutes behind Greenwich if measured by the sun's movement.

Edited 12 October, 2010 by Hamilton Saint

[buctootim]

anyone remember the talking clock? what was the number we had to dial was it 6061?

 

8081. Can still dial it on 123 now.

[hutch]

In many East African countries, the day starts at what we call 6am. So you can be called to meetings starting at 4am, which is actually 10am to you and me.

 

And in Ethiopia, it is now 2003. They have a different calendar, with 13 months in every year. It can get very confusing.