Overview of the Worlds Offset Time Zones

Outline of the World's Offset Time Zones While the greater part of the world knows about time zones that vary in augmentations of 60 minutes, there are numerous spots on the planet that utilization counterbalance time zones. These time zones are balanced by a half-hour or even fifteen minutes off of the standard twenty four time zones of the world. The twenty four time zones of the world depend on fifteen degree additions of longitude. This is so in light of the fact that the earth takes twenty four hours to turn and there are 360 degrees of longitude, so 360 separated by 24 equivalents 15. In this way, in one hour the sun moves across fifteen degrees of longitude. The balance time zones of the world were intended to all the more likely arrange early afternoon as the point in the day when the sun is at its most elevated point in the sky. India, the universes second most crowded nation uses a counterbalance time zone. India is a half-hour in front of Pakistan toward the west and a half-hour behind Bangladesh toward the east. Iran is a half-hour in front of its western neighbor Iraq while Afghanistan, only east of Iran, is an hour in front of Iran however is a half-hour behind neighboring nations, for example, Turkmenistan and Pakistan. Australias Northern Territory and South Australia are counterbalanced in the Australian Central Standard Time zone. These focal bits of the nation are counterbalanced by being a half-hour behind the east (Australian Eastern Standard Time) coast however 90 minutes in front of the territory of Western Australia (Australian Western Standard Time). In Canada, a great part of the region of Newfoundland and Labrador are in the Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) zone, which is a half-hour in front of Atlantic Standard Time (AST). The island of Newfoundland and southeastern Labrador are in NST while the rest of Labrador alongside neighboring territories New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia lie in AST. Venezuelas balance time zone was set up by President Hugo Chavez in late 2007. Venezuelas balance time zone makes it a half hour sooner than Guyana toward the east and a half hour later than Colombia toward the west. One of the most abnormal time zone balances is Nepal, which is fifteen minutes behind neighboring Bangladesh, which is on a standard time zone. Close by Myanmar (Burma), is a half-hour in front of Bangladesh yet an hour in front of balance India. The Australian region of the Cocos Islands shares the time zone of Myanmar. The islands of Marquesas in French Polynesia are likewise counterbalanced and are a half-hour in front of the remainder of French Polynesia. Utilize the Elsewhere on the Web joins related with this article to investigate increasingly about balance time zones, including maps.