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Things do get hard to manage for some nations, especially those that straddle or are close to the International Date Line (which is in the middle of its time zone). There are no laws or rules telling other nations how to define their relationships to the time zones or to the date line. Even if there were, they would not be enforcible.
The island nation of Kiribati, for example, took some extraordinary liberties in 1997 by declaring that the date line moves to the east, as far over as about 150 degrees W. The effect of this was to make Caroline Island, nearly 30 degrees east of the standard location of the date line, the first place to experience sunrise in the new millennium. Coincidence, do you think? Their 'moving' of the date line did not change times in the time zones; only the date line moved.
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According to the standard definitions of the time zones, there are 15 degrees of longitude in each one. Fifteen times 24 equals 360 degrees for a full circle.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoIf time zones were equally spaced (as nautical time zones are), then each time zone is 15o in width. However political time zones are not equally spaced, and to make things more complicated, there are half-step time zones, such as Newfoundland Calcutta. and Adelaide.
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Some political time zones are very wide. Greenland and China, for example, each have one time zone for the entire region, even though each region spans across more than three whole nautical time zones.
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∙ 13y ago15 degrees, on average.
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If a day had 18 hours instead of 24 hours how many time zones would there be around the world How many degrees would each time zone have?
There would be 34 time zones
Earth is divided into 24 standard time zones because?
All of the time zones are 15 degrees wide each. But since there are 24 time zones, and 15x24 is 360, all together they make up the 360 degrees of the globe.
If there were 20 time zones how wide would each time zone be?
20*15 degrees=300 degrees wide
If days had 36 hours how many degrees of longitude would each time zone be?
If you define a time zone as one hour then a 24 hour day will have 24 time zones which each will equal 15 degrees. Therefore an 18 hour day will have 18 time zones of 20 degrees each. 24 x 15 degrees = 360 degrees 18 x 20 degrees = 360 degrees
How many time zones and their measure of degree?
The earth is divided into 24 times zones. Divide 360 degrees by 24 and you will get the measure in degrees.
How many degrees mark each time zone?
Nautical time zones are each made up of 15 degrees. Terrestrial time zones, however vary from zone to zone and country to country.
If the world had eighteen time zones how many degrees would each time zone have?
20
If time zones were perfectly straight how many degrees of longitude would each one be?
15
If a day had 18 hours instead of 24 hours how many time zones would there be around the world How many degrees would each time zone have?
There would be 34 time zones
How many time zones ore there on the Earth?
the earth is divided into 24 time zones, each 15 degrees of longitude in width. Since earth rotates once every 24 hours on its axis and there are 360 degrees of , each hour of Earth rotation represents 15 degrees of longitude.
Earth is divided into 24 standard time zones because?
All of the time zones are 15 degrees wide each. But since there are 24 time zones, and 15x24 is 360, all together they make up the 360 degrees of the globe.
If there were 20 time zones how wide would each time zone be?
20*15 degrees=300 degrees wide
If days had 36 hours how many degrees of longitude would each time zone be?
If you define a time zone as one hour then a 24 hour day will have 24 time zones which each will equal 15 degrees. Therefore an 18 hour day will have 18 time zones of 20 degrees each. 24 x 15 degrees = 360 degrees 18 x 20 degrees = 360 degrees
How many degree apart are 14 time zeros?
24 hours = 360 degrees so each hour = 360/24 = 15 degrees. Then, 14 time zones (if they are each one hour apart) = 14*15 = 210 degrees.
How many time zones and their measure of degree?
The earth is divided into 24 times zones. Divide 360 degrees by 24 and you will get the measure in degrees.
How many time zones do you have and how many hrs apart are they?
There are 24 time zones. Each is one hour wide.
How many time zones are there in the west?
there are 24 time zones in the west 1 for each hour
