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We continued learning about longitude and latitude but we also talked about time zones! A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow boundaries because it is convenient for the areas in close commercial communication to keep the same time. Earth is divided into 360 degrees of longitude, so if you divide 360 by 24 time zones (one for each hour of the day) you get 15. So every 15 degrees should have its own time zone. But it doesn't work like this because of borders. The people that decided on the time zones didn't want a state or city to be split by a time zone, because that would be very confusing. This is why the time zones don't follow every 15 degrees like it makes sense to. Anyway the conversation in class was very controversial, but made me think about why time zones are even necessary.
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