12 noon? 12 pm? or...?
2006-10-31 12:09:10 · 10 answers · asked by snorkelman_37 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It is a thought provoking question & I agree that the pole would use GMT as a default. North Pole AK is over 1500 nm from the real north pole & was just named that by developers wanting to attract toy companies. They failed. It is even south of Fairbanks, lol.
Since the north pole is just a pinpoint convergence of meridians of longitude at a bunch of ice on top of water, it's not like time would matter there anyway, but about.com says "The lines of longitude that establish our time zones are so close at the North Pole, the Arctic region uses UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) when local time is necessary at the North Pole. " and UTC is GMT
2006-11-01 10:27:43 · answer #1 · answered by goodman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Local time in North Pole, AK, United States is 4:11 PM, Tuesday, Oct 31, 2006
2006-10-31 20:12:38 · answer #2 · answered by submariner662 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say that local solar time is undefined at the poles, and since all the time zones converge at the poles, there is no standard time there either. People who have to actually work at or near the poles would use either GMT or the local time of their (non-polar) home base.
2006-10-31 20:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by Grouchy Dude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's either day-time or night-time.
And that's all you need to know for the North Pole.
2006-10-31 20:13:02 · answer #4 · answered by Ecks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4 pm
2006-10-31 20:14:23 · answer #5 · answered by akablueeye 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poles use Greenwich Meantime as their time zone.
2006-10-31 21:17:22 · answer #6 · answered by lizettadf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was this your token question? A level '4' asking this?
Thought provoking none the less. I feel you are really asking a question as to the nature of 'time' itself and possibly "can it be the 'same' in concept" anywhere on the globe.
Probably so, for us anyway.
We're really making-up this 'time thing' as we go anyway.
2006-10-31 20:22:55 · answer #7 · answered by Joe Schmo from Kokomo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the exact opposite of whatever time it is at the South Pole.
2006-10-31 20:11:44 · answer #8 · answered by Dobby The Great 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it all depends what prt of the day it is. ether that or time doesn,t go on
2006-10-31 20:12:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
look at your watch or at your clock,,,,,,,,,,,, it depends
2006-11-01 01:51:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋