Time zones are divisions of different locations of Earth that have their own local times. The times are different in different places on the Earth. Time zones are important to many clans, as they have members from all over the Earth, making understanding the different times of members extremely important.
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| - Time zones are divisions of different locations of Earth that have their own local times. The times are different in different places on the Earth. Time zones are important to many clans, as they have members from all over the Earth, making understanding the different times of members extremely important.
- The game allowed players to travel through time and solve puzzles while meeting famous historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. The screen was a split graphics/text screen. The graphics were done in the Apple's high-resolution format, and the text was four lines at the bottom of the screen. The text described the current scene, including any objects that were in the scene, and allowed the player to type in two-word commands of the form [VERB] [NOUN]; e.g., "GET KEY", similar to that used in text adventure games.
- A time zone was a region of Earth where the same chronological time was in place. Examples included Eastern Standard Time and Pacific Standard Time. According to Hikaru Sulu, it was approximately 5:30 in the time zone where John Christopher's jet plane was destroyed. (TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" )
- Because the spin of the Earth is faster than the speed of time from a relativistic perspective, the time of day is not the same at all points on the planet at the same time. (Indeed, it has never been 3pm in Beiruit.) To reduce the problems caused by this sad fact of astro-geography, the Earth is artificially divided into ten time zones, usually known by their letters. While some see the divisions as arbitrary, the zoning system is highly complex while remaining simple to understand and creating a much less confusing world for us all to live in.
- A time zone is a segment of the Earth (from the North Pole to the South Pole) normally 15 degrees wide, in which the same time is used. The actual time of any location in the time zone may vary. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used, based on Greenwich Mean Time. The process of creating time zones arose in part from the spread of railways and the timetables necessary for their smooth running. (In the UK this could lead to two different times being in operation - local time and railway time, which eventually won out).
- A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from Greenwich Mean Time (see also UTC). Before the adoption of time zones, people used local solar time (originally apparent solar time, as with a sundial; and, later, mean solar time). Mean solar time is the average over a year of apparent solar time. Its difference from apparent solar time is the equation of time.
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| - Time zones are divisions of different locations of Earth that have their own local times. The times are different in different places on the Earth. Time zones are important to many clans, as they have members from all over the Earth, making understanding the different times of members extremely important.
- The game allowed players to travel through time and solve puzzles while meeting famous historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. The screen was a split graphics/text screen. The graphics were done in the Apple's high-resolution format, and the text was four lines at the bottom of the screen. The text described the current scene, including any objects that were in the scene, and allowed the player to type in two-word commands of the form [VERB] [NOUN]; e.g., "GET KEY", similar to that used in text adventure games.
- A time zone was a region of Earth where the same chronological time was in place. Examples included Eastern Standard Time and Pacific Standard Time. According to Hikaru Sulu, it was approximately 5:30 in the time zone where John Christopher's jet plane was destroyed. (TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" )
- A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from Greenwich Mean Time (see also UTC). Standard time zones can 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 neighbouring zones would differ by one hour. However, political and geographical practicalities can result in irregularly-shaped zones that follow political boundaries or that change their time seasonally (as with daylight saving time), as well as being subject to occasional redefinition as political conditions change. There are variations of the definitions of time zone which generally fall into two meanings: a time zone can represent a region where the local time is some fixed offset from a global reference (usually UTC), or a time zone can represent a region throughout which the local time is always consistent even though the offset may fluctuate seasonally. Before the adoption of time zones, people used local solar time (originally apparent solar time, as with a sundial; and, later, mean solar time). Mean solar time is the average over a year of apparent solar time. Its difference from apparent solar time is the equation of time. This became increasingly awkward as railways and telecommunications improved, because clocks differed between places by an amount corresponding to the difference in their geographical longitude, which was usually not a convenient number. This problem could be solved by synchronizing the clocks in all localities, but then in many places the local time would differ markedly from the solar time to which people are accustomed. Time zones are thus a compromise, relaxing the complex geographic dependence while still allowing local time to approximate the mean solar time. There has been a general trend to push the boundaries of time zones further west of their designated meridians in order to create a permanent daylight saving time effect. The increase in worldwide communication has further increased the need for interacting parties to communicate mutually comprehensible time references to one another.
- Because the spin of the Earth is faster than the speed of time from a relativistic perspective, the time of day is not the same at all points on the planet at the same time. (Indeed, it has never been 3pm in Beiruit.) To reduce the problems caused by this sad fact of astro-geography, the Earth is artificially divided into ten time zones, usually known by their letters. While some see the divisions as arbitrary, the zoning system is highly complex while remaining simple to understand and creating a much less confusing world for us all to live in. The system was instituted by Benjamin_Franklin to make everyone live up to the Protestant Work Ethic or die trying.
- A time zone is a segment of the Earth (from the North Pole to the South Pole) normally 15 degrees wide, in which the same time is used. The actual time of any location in the time zone may vary. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used, based on Greenwich Mean Time. The process of creating time zones arose in part from the spread of railways and the timetables necessary for their smooth running. (In the UK this could lead to two different times being in operation - local time and railway time, which eventually won out). The boundaries can vary from the longitude to some extent, mainly to keep the whole of a nation, state, or geographical subdivision within one time zone.
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