why is the time standard in germany and not the us?

Question

why do we have to use grenich mean time

oooops me bad ..i thought it was in germany ...sorry

Answer 1

When the system was designed, the creators were in Greenwich England. England, at that time, owned about half the entire planet, and so they had every right to decide where time (and everything else for that matter) began and ended.

The privilege will never be granted to the US because we have clauses in our constitution which prevent us from becoming absolute war mongerers and attacking and dominating and absorbing other countries.

I think we keep the old system because it works. I don't need 50 million freaking time zone change formulas that I'll need to decipher in order to determine what "time" it is in Iraq and Chine and Australia and Germany and Albania and France and Portugal.

Answer 2

Time is not standard in Germany at all! If you'd like to know more about Greenwich Mean Time, UT and UTC click on the link below!

Answer 3

The main advantage of using UTC Universal Time (scientists, science institutions, and international airlines don't use GMT anymore) is that it is recognized, accepted, and understood around the world.
So when someone says that a lunar eclipse starts at 15:30 UTC, anyone anywhere can easily determine local time for that event.
And airlines, banks, and governments use UTC so that there is no time misunderstanding among offices or people regardless of where they are located (or the local time).

Answer 4

0 degrees longitude goes through the observatory in Greenwich, England. I don't know about Germany.

Answer 5

Because the US is a much bigger country and is stretched over 4 time zones not counting Hawaii.