Every Time Zone Converter (2024)

FAQs

How are there 26 time zones? ›

So, if it's Noon in the West, its 2 p.m. in the East, and the calendar date is the same in all three island groups. This was a sensible arrangement for Kiribati, given the circ*mstances, but it did create the oddity of plus 13 and plus 14 hour time zones, making a world total of 26 hourly time zones, instead of 24.

The travel time provided by Google Maps does not take into account time zones. So, if you leave Chicago at 12:00 PM CST and your destination is Louisville, which is in EST, your arrival time will be 5:40 PM EST.

There are 9 time zones by law in the USA and its dependencies. However, adding the time zones of 2 uninhabited US territories, Howland Island and Baker Island, brings the total count to 11 time zones. The contiguous US has 4 standard time zones.

As each time zone is 1 hour apart, we could expect that in the world there were 24 time zones, however, several time zones are separated by 30 and 45 minutes, so the total number of time zones is 40.

It took many decades before all time zones were based on some "standard offset" from GMT and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Today, there are 37 different local times in use.

By 1929, the majority of countries had adopted hourly time zones, though some countries such as Iran, India, Myanmar and parts of Australia had time zones with a 30-minute offset. Nepal was the last country to adopt a standard offset, shifting slightly to UTC+05:45 in 1986.

UTC is a time, not a zone. The time zones that sometimes use UTC are the Greenwich Mean Time zone and the Western European Time zone. They cover a small part of eastern Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, and West Africa.

In UTC-8: Pacific Standard Time (PST). It covers the western region of the country: California, Washington, part of Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho.

Navigate with Live View

Google Maps offers two views for walking navigation: the 2D map and Live View. With Live View, you get directions placed in the real world and on a mini map at the bottom of your screen. You can use Live View navigation during the walking portion of any type of trip.

Unless, of course, you live in one of two states that don't observe daylight saving time. Then this Sunday is just like every other Sunday. Hawaii and most of Arizona stay in one time zone year-round, meaning they don't switch their clocks in March and November like the rest of us.

Are there 24 or 40 time zones? ›

For example, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, Newfoundland, Venezuela, the Marquesas, and parts of Australia use half-hour deviations from standard time. Other nations, such as Nepal, use quarter-hour deviations. This means that there are approximately 40 time zones rather than 24.

None of the 50 US states have three time zones. However, there are some states with two time zones. These are: Alaska (Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian)

No country, or part of a country, is 24 hours ahead of any part of the contiguous 48 states of the U.S. However, there are places that are 24 hours ahead of American Samoa (UTC-11) and Hawaii (UTC-10).

Ideally, time zones would be slices of Earth's surface 15 degrees of longitude wide that keep the same time. However, some countries and parts of countries have decided that being within a specific time zone is not preferable and have chosen offsets of 30 minutes or even 45 minutes.

You can see that the most extreme time zones are +14 hours at Line Islands (Kiribati), and -12 hours in and around Baker Islands (US). Therefore, the maximum possible difference between times on Earth is 26 hours. That means that at 11:00 PM of a Monday in Baker Island, it is 1:00 AM of a Wednesday in Line Islands.

Time zones and time differences

There are 24 regions (Time Zones) around the world with a time difference of one hour. This system has been adopted internationally by setting the total time difference around the world as 24 hours.

Sir Sanford Fleming, a Canadian engineer, was the first person to propose the use of worldwide time zones back in 1878. His idea was to divide the world into 24 time zones that were each 15 degrees of longitude apart. The reason for this is that the earth rotates 15 degrees every hour, or 360 degrees in 24 hours.

Complete answer: The People's Republic of China spans geographically across five different time zones when measured from the Greenwich Mean time or the Universal Coordinated time as the case may be. However, the country observes one time across all the extent of the territory of China.

While rotating around its axis, every 60 minutes, the Earth moves about 15 degrees. Thus, after 24 hours (one day), it completes a full rotation of 360 degrees. Based on this concept, the Earth was divided into 24 time zones, and each would be 15 degrees of longitude wide.