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20*15 degrees=300 degrees wide

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How many time zones do you have and how many hrs apart are they?

There are 24 time zones. Each is one hour wide.


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.


How wide is each time belt?

On average, time zones are 15 degrees of longitude wide. There are 360 degrees in a circle, and 24 time zones (actually, there are several more that are a half-hour off of the others) so each time zone "ought to be" 15 degrees wide.However, the boundaries between time zones are anything EXCEPT straight and even. Even in oceanic areas, the boundaries are drawn more for political and practical reasons than by any measure of consistency.


What determines time zones?

A time zone is determined by knowing that in theory, each standard time zone should be exactly 15 degrees wide. Also, i would like to send a hi to my calss of period 3 in mr.cappacio 2012-2013. It's me you guys bhu bye.


How many degrees wide in each time zones?

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. _____________ 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.

Related questions

How many time zones do you have and how many hrs apart are they?

There are 24 time zones. Each is one hour wide.


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.


How wide is each time belt?

On average, time zones are 15 degrees of longitude wide. There are 360 degrees in a circle, and 24 time zones (actually, there are several more that are a half-hour off of the others) so each time zone "ought to be" 15 degrees wide.However, the boundaries between time zones are anything EXCEPT straight and even. Even in oceanic areas, the boundaries are drawn more for political and practical reasons than by any measure of consistency.


What determines time zones?

A time zone is determined by knowing that in theory, each standard time zone should be exactly 15 degrees wide. Also, i would like to send a hi to my calss of period 3 in mr.cappacio 2012-2013. It's me you guys bhu bye.


How many degrees wide in each time zones?

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. _____________ 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.


How many time zones is the earth divide?

The earth is divided into 40 formal time zones, not 24 as might commonly be expected. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones for a complete list. Note that the number of time zones also varies with the season as some regions adopt daylight savings time (DST) while others (in the same time zone) choose not to use DST. This can lead to a seasonal increase or decrease in the total number of time zones. According to PHC there are 24 Major time zones


What is the diameter of the earth in km if you measure by time zones?

The circumference of the Earth at the equator is about 40,075 km. There are 24 time zones, so the average width at the equator for each is about 1,669.8 km. Each time zone is 15 degrees wide. The diameter of a 15 degree arc 1,669.8 km long is 1,669.8 * 15 / pi which is about 7,972.7 km. The Earth is not a sphere, and the diameter measured through the North and South poles is different, but measuring the Earth's diameter through the poles using time zones is not valid question.


How many different time zones are there in the UK?

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.


What are time zones and how wide are they?

Ideally, there would be 25 time zones ranging from UTC-12 to UTC+12 with each one a multiple of an hour offset from UTC and each covering 15° of longitude with the exception of 7.5° each for UTC+12 and UTC-12 (15° of longitude with the international date line going down the middle). However there are currently 40 time zones in use today, including UTC-3.5, UTC+5.5, UTC+8:45, UTC+12:45, UTC+14, etc. Some cover far more than 15° of longitude, most notably, China Standard Time, the one time zone used in the entire nation of China.


What times zones does the Uttermost Co. clock cover?

The Uttermost Company's clocks cover all time zones. They offer a wide variety of both wall and table clocks.


What did Sandford Fleming become famous for?

Sandford Fleming became famous for proposing the world wide time zones


Why is it 5 am in eastern US and 3 am in western?

This difference of two hours is because of time zones. Because the sun appears to rise at different times as you travel from east to west (or vice versa), the local time is different as local time has always depended on the position of the sun. As the railways were built across America, the times needed to be made universal for the timetables, so time zones were born. As The United States is so wide, it is split into three time zones, each an hour apart.