The time zones as originally defined are exactly 15 degrees of longitude wide. Distance between the limiting longitudes is at a maximum at the equator, and diminishes to zero at the poles.
The equator is about 24,902 statute miles long, so at the equator the time zones are about 1037.6 statute miles wide.
The Prime Meridian, or Greenwich Meridian, is the line of zero degrees longitude, and this same line on the other side of earth, 180 degrees longitude, is the International Date Line as originally defined. The Prime Meridian and the IDL are at the centers of their respective time zones, and the remaining time zones fit in accordingly.
There is no international law regulating the placement of the time zones. Nations all over the world have made changes according to their individual needs. This makes perfect sense, especially for nations that straddle the IDL. It makes no sense for a single state to have to deal perpetually with one part of the state being a day ahead of another part.
Standard time zones could be defined by geometrically subdividing the Earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge-shaped sections), bordered by meridians each 15° of longitude apart. The local time in neighboring zones would differ by one hour, and the variation in the position of the sun from one end of the zone to the other (east vs. west) would be at most 1/24th of the sky. Most of the 25 nautical time zones (specifically UTC−11 to UTC+11) are indeed defined this way, and are 15° of longitude wide. An hourly zone in the central Pacific Ocean is split into two 7.5° wide zones (UTC±12) by the 180th meridian, part of which coincides with the International Date Line.
The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours.
360/24 = 15 degrees per hour.
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20*15 degrees=300 degrees wide
The hours are earlier to the west of each time zone.
A time belt, or zone, is 15 degrees of longitude wide.
Each time zone differ's by 1 whole hour.
None. No one time zone is 360 degrees that would mean the whole world is one huge time zone.
Each time zone is 1,035 miles wide.
20*15 degrees=300 degrees wide
Approximately four kilometres.
The hours are earlier to the west of each time zone.
A time belt, or zone, is 15 degrees of longitude wide.
There are 15 degrees of longitude in each standard time zone
The hours would be earlier to the west of each time zone.
Each time zone differ's by 1 whole hour.
None. No one time zone is 360 degrees that would mean the whole world is one huge time zone.
The Greenwich Meridian, also known as the prime meridian or International Meridian, is the "starting point" for dividing the Earth's surface into time zones. Each time zone is 15 degrees of longitude wide (with local variations) and the local time is one hour earlier than the zone immediately to the east on the map
The United Kingdom has only one time zone in their area. This time zone is called the Greenwich Mean Time, this is because the United Kingdom is smaller than other areas and does not need different time zones for the amount of land that it is made up of.
Nautical time zones are each made up of 15 degrees. Terrestrial time zones, however vary from zone to zone and country to country.