what is unusual about Newfoundland time zone and why was it done this way?
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Great question!  \n\nNewfoundland’s unique time zone \n\nMany people wonder why the Province of Newfoundland has a time zone that varies by the half hour rather than the standard one hour. While the system of Standard Time employs 24 meridians, and each are theoretically the centres of 24 Standard Time zones, some adjustments have been made to the time zones for the convenience of inhabitants that lie within the zones. Newfoundland, (but not Labrador), lies squarely in the eastern half of its time zone, exactly three and a half hours from Greenwich. The Newfoundland government attempted to bring the province into conformity with the other Atlantic provinces in 1963, but withdrew in the face of stiff public opposition. Other countries that operate on the half hour time difference are: Suriname, Iran, India, Sri Lanka, and Central Australia.
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This condition prevailed until 1884, when a system of standard time was adopted by the International Meridian Conference. Earth's surface was divided into 24 zones. The standard time of each zone is the mean astronomical time of one of 24 meridians, 15 degrees apart, beginning at the Greenwich, England, meridian and extending east and west around the globe to the International Date Line. (This system was actually put into use a year earlier by the railroad companies of the U.S. and Canada, who, until then, had to contend with some 100 conflicting local sun times observed in terminals across the land.)
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Probably because the server is located on the West coast...this is normally why there is a difference. The service itself doesn't really have anything that would be time specific enough to call for them to allow users to set their own time zone...
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The previous poster identified that it was Pacific Daylight Time; I'd suggest that -0700 refers to it being -7 hours relative to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) - the time it is in the UK - because the USA West coast is 7 hours behind GMT.  \nBut I'm not sure if it means it was sent at 07:16 GMT or 00:16 GMT (i.e 07:16 PDT).
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Thats because changing the time has nothing to do with the seasons, its all to do with day length. It was actually abolished in the UK in the late 70's to see what would happen and it proved too dangerous...kids were going to school in the morning in total darkness during the winter.\nThey have it all over the world, its the same in the US, they just call it daylight saving time
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its a time in pacific standard time
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We don't have daylight savings time here
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Why, aren't they two of the many regions that remain on "standard time" year-round? \n\nIt's controversial, but some people say this approach is the way of the future.
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A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offest from Greenwich Mean Time.\n\nStandard 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 is then exactly one hour different. 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.\n\nThere are different 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.\n\nGreenwich Mean Time (GMT) was established in 1675 as an aid to determine longitude at sea by mariners. The first time zone in the world was established by British railways on December 1, 1847 — with GMT hand-carried on chronometers. About August 23, 1852, time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Even though 98% of Great Britain's public clocks were using GMT by 1855, it was not made Britain's legal time until August 2, 1880. Some old clocks from this period have two minute hands — one for the local time, one for GMT [1]. This only applied to the island of Great Britain, and not to the island of Ireland.\n\nOn November 2, 1868, New Zealand (then a British colony) officially adopted a standard time to be observed throughout the colony, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172° 30' East of Greenwich, that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT. This standard was known as New Zealand Mean Time.\n\nTimekeeping on the American railroads in the mid nineteenth century was somewhat confused. Each railroad used its own standard time, usually based on the local time of its headquarters or most important terminus, and the railroad's train schedules were published using its own time. Some major railroad junctions served by several different railroads had a separate clock for each railroad, each showing a different time. The Pittsburgh main station used six different times! The confusion for travellers making a long journey involving several changes of train can be imagined
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Timezone lines are generally not straight at all.  It's probably due to the effect time change has on peoples' lives.  It's easier for people to associate a time zone with an existing border than have a time zone cut through the middle of a city the way longitude lines do.\n\nThe international date line weaves between Alaska and Russia because that's the easiest place for it to be, practically speaking.  It's pretty straight after that.  It veers to cut between some Pacific islands and then is straight again.
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NO, because the time zones and the International Date Line don't line up. When Kiribati became independent of th UK, it made the Date Line go around the east end of the country, so that all of their islands would be on the same side of the Date Line. This means that there are more than 24 hourly time zones, so there are moments when there are parts of 3 days going on. If you had a fast plane, you could depart from Kiribati's Line Islands just after midnight Sunday morning, arrive somwhere further west like Jarvis Island just before midnight Friday evening, and have your Saturday all over again!
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The day is being calculated in another server. Your time zone may be different. Try after some time
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There's Greenwich Mean Time, which was measured from the 0 degree meridian in Greenwich, UTC (Universal Time co-ordinate) which is measured from an atomic clock in france somewhere (UTC doesn't have summer time, GMT does) and there's standard time which works on the premise that 1 rotation of the earth is 24 hrs, so 360 degrees in 24 hrs = 15 degrees every hour, so every 15 degrees of longitude is 1 hr of time difference
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It usually happens. There's a TV station in St. John's, NL, whose time zone is 90min ahead of Eastern time, that's carried all over the country via satellite, and it airs most of its prime-time programs earlier in the day, and sometimes a few days ahead.
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In 1878, Canadian Sir Sanford Fleming proposed the system of worldwide time zones that we use today. He recommended that the world be divided into twenty-four time zones, each spaced 15 degrees of longitude apart. Since the earth rotates once every 24 hours and there are 360 degrees of longitude, each hour the earth rotates one-twenty-fourth of a circle or 15 degrees of longitude. Sir Fleming's time zones were heralded as a brilliant solution to a chaotic problem worldwide.\n\nUnited States railroad companies began utilizing Fleming's standard time zones on November 18, 1883. In 1884 an International Prime Meridian Conference was held in Washington D.C. to standardize time and select the Prime Meridian. The conference selected the longitude of Greenwich, England as zero degrees longitude and established the 24 time zones based on the Prime Meridian. Although the time zones had been established, not all countries switched immediately. Though most U.S. states began to adhere to the Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern time zones by 1895, Congress didn't make the use of these time zones mandatory until the Standard Time Act of 1918.\n\nToday, many countries operate on variations of the time zones proposed by Sir Fleming. All of China (which should span five time zones) uses a single time zone - eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (known by the abbreviation UTC - based on the time zone running through Greenwich at 0 degrees longitude). Australia uses three time zones - its central time zone is a half-hour ahead of its designated time zone. Several countries in the Middle East and South Asia also utilize half-hour time zones.\n\nSince 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!\n\nThe time zones of the United States are standardized by Congress and although the lines were drawn to avoid populated areas, sometimes they've been moved to avoid complication. There are nine time zones in the U.S. and its territories, they include Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii-Aleutian, Samoa, Wake Island, and Guam.\n\nWith the growth of the Internet and global communication and commerce, some have advocated a new worldwide time system.
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Looking at http://www.worldtimezone.com/index12.php, it looks like it should be 4:00 pm.
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you mean 7 hours earlier?\nthat's the mountain time zone of the US, mexico, and canada, i believe.