What Time in World Countries - Interesting Facts

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Amazing Facts about Time Zones
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Fact 1

• Daylight saving time also called summer time, was
  designed to take advantage of summer sunlight.
  During daylight saving time, the clocks are
  advanced by an hour. Daylight saving time is
  implemented at the start of the spring, and
  adjusted to the standard time in the autumn.

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Fact 2

• The International Space Station follows GMT
  (Greenwich Mean Time).

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Fact 3

• The Prime Meridian (0 degree longitude), which
  runs through Greenwich, England, is considered as
  the base time zone.

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Fact 4

• China follows a single time zone and the whole
  country, which spans several longitudes, follows
  Beijing time. As a result, many parts of the
  country have sunset at midnight during summers.

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Fact 5

• India also follows one national time zone (GMT
  0530). The national time zone was introduced
  during the British regime to streamline the
  railway network.

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Fact 6

• Many countries have one time zone but the larger
  ones, like the U.S.A. and Russia, have multiple
  time zones. On the map, Russia has 11 time zones
  but it only follows nine time zones since 2010.
  The U.S.A. has nine time zones and most of the
  states follow daylight saving time.

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Fact 7

• Egypt had shunned DST in 2011 during the month of
  Ramadan to shorten the fasting hours. and
  reinstated it in 2014 to help reduce electricity
  consumption.

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Fact 8

• Swedish company has invented time zone for future
  colonies on the moon. Its called Lunar Standard
  Time.

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Fact 9

• In 2011, the Pacific island nation of Samoa and
  its neighbour Tokelau jumped a day to align its
  time with its Asian trading partners.

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Fact 10

• The island of Markets Fyr in the Baltic Sea
  follows two time zones as its owned by two
  countries, Sweden and Finland.

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Fact 11

• The North Pole and South Pole don't have official
  time zones. In the North Pole, the research
  stations of many countries follow their
  respective country's time zones. The South Pole,
  on the other hand, has only one American research
  station but it follows New Zealand time.

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Fact 12

• All the countries in the world follow the hourly
  or half-hourly time zone but Nepal (GMT5.45) and
  Chatham Islands (GMT12.45) have a quarter-hourly
  time zone.

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