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unusual facts about time zone


Time zone

Near the summer solstice, Muxia has sunset times (after 10:00 pm) similar to those of Stockholm, which is in the same time zone and 16 degrees further north.


Out-of-box experience

While the installation is largely automatic, the user must proceed through multiple screens to acknowledge software license terms, specify partition settings for the hard disk, enter the "product key", select international settings, a time zone, and also configure network settings.

Owyhee, Nevada

Owyhee is within the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and, since about half the reservation is located in southwestern Idaho, the Nevada portion of the reservation unofficially observes Mountain Time, as does nearby Mountain City (located 12 miles southeast of Owyhee and 2 miles southeast of the reservation boundary), even though they are legally in the Pacific Time Zone.

Sunpendulum

Twelve video cameras called "time-eyes" are connected to the internet in twelve locations in twelve time zones around the Earth, observing the sky twenty four hours per day, continuously creating a hypothetical "sun clock" which spans the planet.

Time in Thailand

Prior to 1 January 1901 - locations in Siam with an Astronomical Observatory would adopt the local mean time based on the Observatory's geographical position.

TimeBridge

TimeBridge's meeting management service works with large groups or one-on-one meetings across time zones and companies and integrates directly with Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar and Apple iCal.


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Bentley Continental GT

As part of Continental GT V8 launch, Breitling SA created a 250-piece limited edition of its Bentley GMT chronograph (based on the Breitling Calibre 47B) featuring a second time-zone display.

Broken Hill Football League

Indeed the city of Broken Hill to this day conducts itself in many ways as a city aligned to South Australia, using the same time zone (Australian Central Standard Time), being in the (08) Western/central area code, and its local television station, Central GTS/BKN, covers Broken Hill and parts of South Australia.

Chamorro

Chamorro Time Zone, formerly the Guam Time Zone, the time zone in which Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are situated.

Indian Standard Time

In 2014, Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi started campaigning for another time zone for Assam and other northeastern states of India.

Molad

Also, some printed sources even add an hour during the summertime for "daylight saving", or attempt to apply conversions to the local time zone, but those are also mistakes because they would affect the molad of Tishrei and thus could imply an erroneous date for Rosh Hashanah.

National League West

The East Division was spread over the Eastern Time Zone and the Central Time Zone - despite the fact that the National League had six teams in the Eastern Time Zone and six teams spread between the Central Time Zone and the Pacific Time Zone.

Time in China

Although the only official time zone in the PRC is Beijing Time, the People's Congress of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, due to its geographical location in the westernmost part of the country, proclaimed Ürümqi Time (UTC+6), two hours behind Beijing.

The unified time zone policy was adopted by the Communist Party of China or the People's Republic government some time between 27 September 1949, and 6 October 1949; the exact date is unknown.

Time in Indiana

The most extensive study of time zone history in Indiana has been published in The American Atlas (1978) by Thomas G. Shanks, where the author identifies 345 areas in the state with a different time zone history for each.

Time in the United States

The major professional sports leagues also post all game times in Eastern time; thus, for example, the start time of a Los Angeles DodgersSan Francisco Giants game usually is still posted by Major League Baseball and the national sports media in Eastern Time, even though the game location is covered by the Pacific Time Zone.

Time in Venezuela

The official time zone of Venezuela is determined by meridian 67° 30' west of Greenwich, UK.

UTC−4:30 was formerly the official time zone in Venezuela from 1912 to 1965, when the government changed it in order to adopt meridian 60° (UTC−4), which passes through Punta de Playa, Delta Amacuro State.

Time Structured Mapping

This led to Simultaneity recordings that were not made in the same location: in December 2004, with volunteers primarily from CEC Canada’s online forum, a recording was made simultaneously in countries around the world: volunteers were asked to record exactly the same twenty minutes of their environment wherever they were in the world, regardless of time-zone, but to include something that marked the hour changing.

UTC+14:00

This is the highest time zone, meaning that areas in this zone are the first to see a new day, and therefore the first to celebrate a New Year.