World Time Zones: What Do We Know About Them?

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The whole world has been divided into 24 time zones. It’s fairly easy to determine the standard time for any time zone in the world. You simply add one hour for each time zone that you count in an easterly direction and subtract one hour for each time zone counted in a westerly direction from where you are. I know most of you that I communicate with on MyLot live in a different time zone, which makes for an interesting situation, since you may be sleeping while I am awake and vice versa. The Prime Meridian is at 0 degrees. It’s also called Greenwich Meridian for Greenwich, England. The International Date Line is at 180 degrees longitude. The time is the same on both sides of the International Dateline, but the day is different. West of the International Dateline, it is one day later than it is East of the International Dateline. I was able to experience this personally when I flew to Okinawa from the East Coast of the USA and when I returned, flying over the North Pole into California, arriving, by the clock, 3 hours before I left Okinawa. I’ve also experienced, as I’m sure many of you have also done, “jet lag” when traveling. Your body stays on its normal time, but you have traveled to a different time zone and it confuses the heck out of your bodily functions. What experience have you had with changing time zones?