2006-11-02 05:32:07 · 10 answers · asked by steelyourself 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
yes that is true
Click on your clock on your pc then click time zones, it will show you all of them
2006-11-02 05:33:29 · answer #1 · answered by ABYSS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally speaking, boundaries between time zones run along international boundaries, so they are difficult to step over. This is for convenience, so that the whole of one country keeps the same time. However, there are some countries that are so big (measured in an east to west direction) that they have to be split up into two or more time zones. The ones that I recall, from memory, are Russia, USA, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, Australia and (I think) Kazakhstan. There are probably others. In such a country, boundaries between time zones tend to follow provincial or other administrative boundaries or to run along natural obstacles, such as rivers. When they pass through sparsely populated areas, the time zone boundaries are often just vertical (north-to-south) lines on the map.
Yes, there are places in the world there are lines marked on the ground, but they only run for short distances and are mainly there for fun, i.e. so that a person can stand with one leg in one time zone and the other leg in the next time zone.
Allan Deeds (Great Britain)
2006-11-02 13:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by deedsallan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and if you step over the date line (at longitude 180 deg, mostly in the Pacific Ocean) you step into another day.
If I fly from my home in New Zealand to LA, I can experience the same day twice.
Of course, the time zones are just an artifact created by humans so that everbody in the world has their times spread over the logical part of the day; e.g. 12 noon should be when the sun is as near as dam it to its highest point in the sky, and 12 midnight is near to the middle of the night.
If countries have to cooperate in some science that involves time (space shots are good example) they all use Universal Time, UT, which used to be Greenwich Mean Time, GMT.
That way they all have the same time. But if someone in England is on UT 12:00 (which is noon at Greenwich, London), UT 12:00 in Australia or New Zealand is near the middle of the night.
That is why we create time zones - we don't want 12 noon to be in the night, do we?
2006-11-02 16:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by nick s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. In the United States, they often (though not always) follow state lines, sometimes moving to avoid metropolitan areas, etc. I remember driving to California (I live in Central time). At the Texas-New Mexico line, I entered Mountain Time (a sign on the side of I-40 was posted about the time change) and at the New Mexico-Arizona line, I had to set my watch back another hour, because Arizona didn't observe daylight savings time. When I got to California, I entered Pacific time, but since Arizona didn't observe daylight savings time, I didn't need to change my watch.
2006-11-02 13:41:07 · answer #4 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that's exactly how they work. There is even an arbitrary line that you step over and time changes by twenty-four hours the "international date line". Of course, time doesn't -actually- jump, it's just the clock-keeping convention used to make sense of the fact that sunrise is later the further west you go.
2006-11-02 13:36:07 · answer #5 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it goes by time zones. there are 4 time zones. the west coast and some other ones lol it just goes by like how close it is to the equator. its like if you are in illinois, it would be 5:30, it would be 3:30 in california. its kinda confusing but thats basically how it works
2006-11-02 13:46:34 · answer #6 · answered by chilly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More or less. Although it should be pointed out that some places (states like Arizona and Ohio for instance) where DST isn't observed and they're within one time zone for half a year and another one for the other half.
2006-11-02 13:34:15 · answer #7 · answered by Amy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth spins about 265 mph, each 265 miles starts the time, thats why calif, is 3 hours behind the east coast.
2006-11-02 13:35:05 · answer #8 · answered by Skuya!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah actually i was in vegas and we went to the hoover dan and theres a part that theres a line and one side is nevada and the other arazona and the time zone changes and theres a clock on either side and it ia differant
2006-11-02 13:36:03 · answer #9 · answered by Kelly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You can find maps online that show the time changes.
2006-11-02 13:41:31 · answer #10 · answered by Xander 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋