Can someone show me a formula that can calculate the number of time in minutes between two longitude/latitude locations?
2006-11-19 09:06:33 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Latitude doesn't affect time at all. For Longitude, since 360 degrees encompasses the entire earth's surface, and since the earth rotates once in 24 hours, the time between two points one degree apart in longitude is 24/360 or 4/60 or 1/15 of an hour, which is 4 minutes. (you can break this down as far as you want, using smaller and smaller longitudinal differences). As an offshoot of this, there are 15 degrees in an arc of the earth representing one time zone. By the way, there is no "local time" at either the North or South Pole, but that's a story for another time.
2006-11-19 09:41:10 · answer #1 · answered by JIMBO 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GMT+- lat offset
2006-11-19 17:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by ★Greed★ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://msxml.excite.com/info.xcite/search/web/time%2Bzones
2006-11-19 17:10:53 · answer #3 · answered by tronary 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋