The time zone is a strip conventionally drawn on the surface of the planet with a width of about 15 degrees. Accordingly, the Greenwich meridian or the so-called Greenwich meridian is considered to be the middle meridian of the zero time zone. The formation of such zones takes into account the rotation of the Earth around its axis, as well as the desire to reduce differences in time within the same territory. So how many time zones are there and what are they?
Instructions
Step 1
It is customary to separate 40 time zones. This is:
- UTC -12 or Yankee, which is the date line;
- UTC -11 or X-ray in American Samoa;
- UTC -10 or Whiskey in Hawaii;
- UTC -9 or Victor - Alaska;
- UTC -8 or Uniform - most of the US and Canada;
- UTC -7 or Tango - some parts of the USA and Canada, as well as Mexico;
- UTC -6 or Sierra - the same countries as UTC 7;
- UTC -5 or Romeo - USA, Canada, Bogota, Lima and Quito;
- UTC -4: 30 falls on Caracas;
- UTC -4 or Quebec - Canada La Paz and Santiago;
- UTC -3: 30 falls on Newfoundland;
- UTC -3 or Papa in Greenland, Brasilia and Buenos Aires;
- UTC -2 or Oscar, covering the Atlantic Ocean;
- UTC -1 or November - Azores;
- UTC 0 or Zulu - Dublin, Lisbon and London;
- UTC +1 or Alpha falls on Amsterdam, Zagreb, Berlin, Sarajevo, Bern, Prague, Brussels, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Madrid, Budapest, Paris, Bratislava, Rome, Belgrade, Stockholm and Rome;
- UTC +2 or Bravo, which includes cities and countries such as Athens, Turkey, South Africa, Bucharest, Libya, Vilnius, Lebanon, Kiev, Israel, Chisinau, Egypt, Riga, Helsinki, Sofia, Tiraspol and Tallinn;
- UTC +3 or Charlie - Kaliningrad, Qatar, Minsk, Kuwait, Yemen, Iraq;
- UTC +3: 30 is called Tehran time;
- UTC +4 or Delta - Moscow time;
- UTC +4: 30 falls on the territory of Afghanistan;
- UTC +5 or Echo - territories of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan;
- UTC +5: 30 in India and Sri Lanka;
- UTC +5: 45 in Nepal;
- UTC +6 or Foxtrot in Russian Yekaterinburg;
- UTC +6: 30 - Myanmar;
- UTC +7 or Golf in Russian Siberian cities (Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo);
- UTC +8 or Hotel - Krasnoyarsk, Ulan Bator, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong;
- UTC +8: 45 includes five Australian cities;
- UTC +9 or India - Irkutsk, Korea and Japan;
- UTC +9: 30 includes the cities of Central Australia;
- UTC +10 or Klio - Yakutsk, Guam, Melbourne and Sydney;
- UTC +10: 30 - also in Australia;
- UTC +11 or Lima - Vladivostok, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia;
- UTC +11: 30 includes the Australian island of Norfolk;
- UTC +12 or Mike - New Zealand;
- UTC +12: 45 - the territory of the same country as in the case of UTC +12;
- UTC +13 - Samoa and Tonga;
- UTC +13: 45 runs through the New Zealand Chatham archipelago;
- UTC +14 - Line Islands.
Step 2
At the same time, there are quite a few countries in the world with several time zones: Australia (from UTC +6: 30 to +11: 30), Great Britain (from UTC +6 to -8), Brazil (from UTC -4 to -2), Greenland (UTC 0 to -4), Denmark (UTC +1 to -4), Congo (UTC +1 to +2), Indonesia (UTC +7 to +9), Spain, Kazakhstan (from UTC +5 to +6), Canada (from UTC 3:30 to -8), Kiribati (from UTC +12 to +14), Mexico (from UTC -6 to -8), Micronesia (from UTC +10 to +11), Mongolia (from UTC +7 to +8), the Netherlands (from UTC +1 to -4), New Zealand (from UTC +12 to +12: 45), Russia (from UTC +3 to +12), Portugal, USA (UTC -5 to -10), France (UTC +12 to -10), Chile (UTC -4 to -6) and Ecuador (UTC -5 to -6).
