Additionally, Antarctica has about 10 unofficial time zones.

One such example is India, the thought it is an extensive territory, it observes only a single time zone like China does. Majority of the countries, in particular, the smaller ones, comprise of only one time zone but there are about 23 countries that have at least two time zones and France has the maximum of all i.e. They deeply studied the movement of the Earth and finally came up with around 24 time zones that have been theoretically drawn onto the world map. The scientists introduced the time zones with a difference of 15 degrees that denoted the variance of about one hour in the average solar time. The actual borders that have been drawn on the time zone map hardly show coordination with 15-degree borders and adhere to the external and internal borders. This is a list representing time zones by country.Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. It takes into account daylight saving time (DST) changes. In Doctorow's world, your loyalties lie not with the country of your. It was fun read but what I enjoyed most was his idea that people would belong to a 'tribe' based on their time zone. Additionally, the IDL or International Date Line leads to the creation of three more. In the late 19th century a method to subdivide the world into several time zones was introduced by a group of scientists. The Time Zone Map gives an overview of current local times around the world. Majority of the time zones on earth are offset from UTC i.e. Common World Time Zone Abbreviations AEST - Australia Eastern Standard Time ACST - Australia Central Standard Time AFT - Afghanistan Time AKST - Alaska. Cory Doctorow, scifi author and BoingBoing co-founder, once wrote a scifi novel called Eastern Standard Tribe (available free). To save themselves, the races of the surface flee into the depths of Gaian, waiting for a time when they.

The world is plagued by arcane fires that ravage the surface every two-thousand years, completely destroying anything in their path. The logical answer to this question is that there are about 24 time zones as there exist 24 hours and also the time earth takes to complete one rotation is 24 hrs. This would, however, be true only if the time zones were an hour apart but this is not the case, as there are several time zones that are on 30-45 minutes offset and thus increasing the total number of time zones. Gaian is a world strongly connected to the flows of magic that is constantly undergoing change.

All time zones in the world