pxoxrxn
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I'm not sure about the USA, but in most countries they move the lines around the states/territories. So, for practical reasons you couldn't have a house that's in between two states.
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I'm not sure about the USA, but in most countries they move the lines around the states/territories. So, for practical reasons you couldn't have a house that's in between two states.
lazyfrog
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Time zones and different times were a thing when people could not talk to faraway people. Now it is just absurd on first look. Today we can talk with each other while it is noon in here where as it could be night at the place you are reading. Military times use a standard 24 hr day format. So if we agreed time zone of say Greenwich then all this problem stops. Most of our historical stories are written as follows " people danced from evening to morning on the full moon of every month" or "on the 23rd day of the new king's ascension to throne invaders attacked at noon and soldiers fought till 25th day evening and the king was killed in morning of 26th day."
Time throughout the world has been kept as days and nights. But if one time zone is accepted by people of the world, this could be wonderful. The only problem will be that morning could be at 0700GMT in London whereas it could be mid night in US and 0700GMT could be afternoon in China. Actually this is still happening. But we do not use one clock in the whole world. But I believe it might happen soon. As many use English as the common language inspite of being non English speaking people. This did not happen 100 years back. Nowadays many calculate their wealth and use US Dollar even of they use other currencies in their countries.
Day light saving is just one of those things that is not required as it hardly adds any productivity contrary to its proposers, but is still used in many places, only because of old habits. Similarly a world clock could be a new thing . It will be helpful. Take this one example. An Asian waiting to watch a US TV episode is confused when it is announced that it will be on air at 10 PM Eastern Time. Had there been say it will be aired at 0830 World Clock. Then see how it becomes easy. webinars, podcasts , news all of them will become easier to co ordinate. But hey we are humans, we are slave to our habits. That's why we still have day light saving.
Time throughout the world has been kept as days and nights. But if one time zone is accepted by people of the world, this could be wonderful. The only problem will be that morning could be at 0700GMT in London whereas it could be mid night in US and 0700GMT could be afternoon in China. Actually this is still happening. But we do not use one clock in the whole world. But I believe it might happen soon. As many use English as the common language inspite of being non English speaking people. This did not happen 100 years back. Nowadays many calculate their wealth and use US Dollar even of they use other currencies in their countries.
Day light saving is just one of those things that is not required as it hardly adds any productivity contrary to its proposers, but is still used in many places, only because of old habits. Similarly a world clock could be a new thing . It will be helpful. Take this one example. An Asian waiting to watch a US TV episode is confused when it is announced that it will be on air at 10 PM Eastern Time. Had there been say it will be aired at 0830 World Clock. Then see how it becomes easy. webinars, podcasts , news all of them will become easier to co ordinate. But hey we are humans, we are slave to our habits. That's why we still have day light saving.
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kumbhak11
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Maybe you are looking for existence of a line physically on surface of earth. That line exists only on maps/globes Similar to paypal money generator of BHW which doesnot has physical existence but it is still searched by newbies.
srb888
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The same way they change the time on your computer:
"This computer is set to automatically synchronize with 'time.windows.com'."
Windows (and Google sometimes) is the doorway to solve all problems (excepts its own). Before Windows and Google, the time and this world didn't existed...
"This computer is set to automatically synchronize with 'time.windows.com'."
Windows (and Google sometimes) is the doorway to solve all problems (excepts its own). Before Windows and Google, the time and this world didn't existed...
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FX44
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I get what you mean, but everyone within a specific time zone is on the same exact time, even down to the minute. If it is 6PM in NJ for you, then even in the dead center of PA it would still be 6PM to them. Pretty sure it continues that way around the globe aside from a few places in awkward spots who cut the hour in half.
Unless you're trying to shoot birds in South Carolina, then all of our clocks are the same if we're in the same time zone :lmao:
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/regs/migratorybird/timezones.html
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Codliver
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Why doesn't the man (in real life) at the bottom of the pic think he is standing almost upside-down when that is an actual case?
The absolute biggest lie in mankinds history is that the earth isn't flat. In actuality large bodies of mass create warps in the fabric of space. This warps then reflect the earth into what appears to be a sphere viewed from space.
tl;dr earth is really flat; sphere is illusion
srb888
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Hmm new question is why some places have a night and some whatever
... Because earth is far bigger than sun
GwenGwen
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Let me google that for you.
Taken from the Time Zone Wikipedia page:
"A time zone is a region that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time.
Most of the time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours (UTC−12 to UTC+14), but a few are offset by 30 or 45 minutes (for example Newfoundland Standard Time is UTC -03:30, Nepal Standard Time is UTC +05:45, and Indian Standard Time is UTC +05:30). Some higher latitude countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by changing clocks by an hour. Many land time zones are skewed toward the west of the corresponding nautical time zones. This also creates a permanent daylight saving time effect."
Taken from the Time Zone Wikipedia page:
"A time zone is a region that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time.
Most of the time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours (UTC−12 to UTC+14), but a few are offset by 30 or 45 minutes (for example Newfoundland Standard Time is UTC -03:30, Nepal Standard Time is UTC +05:45, and Indian Standard Time is UTC +05:30). Some higher latitude countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by changing clocks by an hour. Many land time zones are skewed toward the west of the corresponding nautical time zones. This also creates a permanent daylight saving time effect."
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hacko
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Pls keep your ignorant views to yourself sir we all know the world was invented
qrazy
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Hmm new question is why some places have a night and some whatever
... Because earth is far bigger than sun
may be that's because sun is also flat... In actuality there's no sun, it's all illusion
At last someone who understands exactly what I am going on about.
The line has to be drawn somewhere, so somewhere their have to be people whose neighbours are an hour in front of them
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HoNeYBiRD
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i think no, it's not that drastic in practice, what i can imagine that the line is following city limits, so it's not a straight line unlike on the timezone maps, at least that's what would seem logical to me, but maybe i'm wrong and Americans like the ruler more than anything lol
But still there is no mystical one hour void in the middle of the time line. In fact from what I can make out, the timeline is less than a millimetre thick.
