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Everything on earth at all places is happening at the same "time" no matter what the clocks say. However, it is convention to have "time zones" where the clocks are adjusted to show 12 noon when the sun is appriximately South (more accurately where what is south faces the sun). That means that as the earth spins on its axis different longitudes face the sun at a rate of 15 degrees of longitude pass facing the sun every hour. For convenience this line often deviates in places to follow national borders, but basically that is what is happening.

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