Do all countries use the same reference of time as in America?

Question

Meaning, do all countries around the world, use a 24 hour day, with 60 minutes in the hour, etc.?

Answer 1

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

The info below is part of an article on time and how it's measured, as found on the wikipedia site above:



World time
The measurement of time is so critical to the functioning of modern societies that it is coordinated at an international level. The basis for scientific time is a continuous count of seconds based on atomic clocks around the world, known as the International Atomic Time (TAI). This is the yardstick for other time scales, including Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is the basis for civil time.

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 Greenwich Mean Time. In many locations these offsets vary twice yearly due to daylight saving time transitions.

(from my Geography major: 24 time zones are calculated at 15 degree longitude intervals, numbered from 0 degrees (the Greenwich Mean Time locale because it runs through Greenwich, England) to 180 degrees (International Date Line) going east and west. For every 15 degrees east you go, you GAIN an hour or day, going west you LOSE an hour/day.)

Answer 2

Yes

Answer 3

Yes, I am pretty sure they do. If you didn't already know it a lot of European countries use military time.

Answer 4

Yep .. it seems thats the only thing everybody in the world agrees on

Answer 5

As far as I know yes.

Answer 6

haha you must be an american thats the dumbest question ever

Answer 7

yes.