Time Zone Project-Ch.15 by Angel Jacobo https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9 By Angel Jacobo and Anthony Santos 4-14-16 Per.6 en-us 2016-04-14 21:08:36 UTC 2024-01-10 23:46:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/rose_close.jpg Time Zones  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105912320 Time Zones are divided into 24 time zones, one for each hour.  It is also called International Date Line ]]> 2016-04-14 21:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105912320 Understanding Time Zones  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105912711 Time zones can be confusing at first to fully understand it, because the earth rotates 360 degrees each day, each zone was to represent 15 degrees longitude because of the division 360 degrees to 24 hours will equal 15 degrees ]]> 2016-04-14 21:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105912711 Reason Behind Time Zones  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105913571 The reason why we have 24 different time zones if we only had one time zone noon would be the middle of the day in some places, but it would be morning, evening and the middle of the night in others. Since different parts of the Earth enter and exit daylight at different times]]> 2016-04-14 21:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105913571 Time Zones in each countries  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105929922 2016-04-15 01:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105929922 How Do Time Zones Work  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105930136 Officials have adjusted the boundaries of many time zones to keep political units, such as countries, within a single time zone.]]> 2016-04-15 01:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105930136 Time Zone Map 341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105937180 Shows the time zones that are in use around the world today. ]]> 2016-04-15 03:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105937180 Railroads and Time Zones  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105938454 Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local times were synchronised and a single standard time applied.]]> 2016-04-15 03:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/105938454 Railroads Create The First Time Zones  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106103941
  • November 18, 1883 
    • At noon the US and Canada railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local time. This was power shared by the railroad companies. 
    •  Mostly all Americans and Canadians embraced the time zones since they traveled around with railroads all the time. 
    ]]>     2016-04-15 21:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106103941     TIme Zone Introduction 341008 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106104402 Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced on November 18, 1883 ]]> 2016-04-15 21:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106104402 First Country to Adopt Time Zones 341008 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106104587 The British colony, New Zealand at the time, was the first to adopt a standard time to be observed by the colony]]> 2016-04-15 21:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106104587 Time Zone Hour Changes Every Hour 341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106104790 Moves 15 degrees]]> 2016-04-15 21:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106104790 North and South  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106105121 Since time zones are based on segments of longitude and lines of longitude narrow at the poles, scientists working at the North and South Poles simply use UTC time. Otherwise, Antarctica would be divided into 24 very thin time zones]]> 2016-04-15 21:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106105121 Summary  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106105124 There is an imaginary starting point that passes through the least-inhabited part of the Pacific Ocean that is the International Date Line. Each day starts there and moves with the sun to the west.

    ]]>     2016-04-15 21:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106105124     Closure  341509 https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106105332 Time zones follow the same means of dividing the world into 24 parts or segments each with different time ]]> 2016-04-15 21:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/341509/1s1rdbyjirc9/wish/106105332