

You don't even need to fly, or travel east to west.


Often the only thing that matters is wall clock time, but in areas where you'd prefer indoor activities in the hottest hours, or where daylight hours are few, check times of the hottest hours, the hours with most UV-radiation, or times of sunrise and sunset, depending on your needs. While when observing "sun time", the sun is at its highest at noon, the political time zones can be stretched out or biased to differ even a few hours from this. (The total span of time zones covers more than 24 hours because the Date Line jogs westward and eastward to keep certain national island groupings on the same calendar day, although they are not within a single time zone.)
MAP OF TIME ZONES FULL
Crossing the Date Line going eastward, clocks are turned back a full 24 hours, and vice versa in the opposite direction. UTC+4) zones west of UTC and east of the Date Line are specified by the number of hours behind UTC (e.g. Time zones east of UTC and west of the International Date Line are specified by the number of hours ahead of UTC (e.g. It comes from the nautical system in which each time zone was assigned a letter. The "Z" is for "zero", and "Zulu" is the two-way radio pronunciation of "Z". UTC is also sometimes called Z or Zulu time. UTC used to be called GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), after the Royal Observatory located in the Greenwich area of London. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shoreĪlthough many time zones have descriptive names used by people in them, they are least ambiguously identified by their relationship to UTC (Universal Time, Co-ordinated). This is a list of countries, regions, and territories grouped by time zone.
