To deceive the nature: Terrestrial Day 50 hours long.
Time is relative - we know this from school. Like the fact that it is impossible for us to feel. But there is still a way to be convinced of the curvature of time - to drive away from your native city.
Then the law of zone time comes into force, which breaks the planet into 24 time zones in 15 ° increments of one hour. It was invented by Canadian engineer Stanford Fleming in 1878. The idea is simple: the Earth makes a turn around its axis (360 °) in 24 hours, which means that in one hour the Sun “runs through the sky” 15 °, shifting by one time zone
The need to solve the problem of time zones by 1878 has matured. Previously, each city had its own time, and the traveler, arriving at a new place, simply transferred his watch. But with the advent of railways, people began to quickly move over long distances, and a terrible confusion arose. Because of the confusion in the timetables, America was threatened with a real traffic collapse, and in England a clock with two hour hands came into use: one showed local time, the other - Greenwich, in which trains ran.
In 1884, an international conference in Washington recognized the division of the world into 24 time zones. True, at first they used it only in shipping. In Russia, it was introduced in 1918.
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Zone time is the great invention of mankind, designed to defeat the chronographic chaos of the era of the transport revolution and globalization. In a systemic sense, it won it, but in some places it gave rise to such twists that the mind comes to mind. The fact that the day on Earth does not last 24 hours, but 50 and Friday, November 7 begins on the Line Islands at one o'clock on Thursday November 6 in Moscow, and ends on Baker Island at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on November 8 in Moscow - these are flowers.
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PS From myself, I note that I suspected that everything was very interesting, but did not know that the time difference was so colossal.
Then the law of zone time comes into force, which breaks the planet into 24 time zones in 15 ° increments of one hour. It was invented by Canadian engineer Stanford Fleming in 1878. The idea is simple: the Earth makes a turn around its axis (360 °) in 24 hours, which means that in one hour the Sun “runs through the sky” 15 °, shifting by one time zone
The need to solve the problem of time zones by 1878 has matured. Previously, each city had its own time, and the traveler, arriving at a new place, simply transferred his watch. But with the advent of railways, people began to quickly move over long distances, and a terrible confusion arose. Because of the confusion in the timetables, America was threatened with a real traffic collapse, and in England a clock with two hour hands came into use: one showed local time, the other - Greenwich, in which trains ran.
In 1884, an international conference in Washington recognized the division of the world into 24 time zones. True, at first they used it only in shipping. In Russia, it was introduced in 1918.
')
Zone time is the great invention of mankind, designed to defeat the chronographic chaos of the era of the transport revolution and globalization. In a systemic sense, it won it, but in some places it gave rise to such twists that the mind comes to mind. The fact that the day on Earth does not last 24 hours, but 50 and Friday, November 7 begins on the Line Islands at one o'clock on Thursday November 6 in Moscow, and ends on Baker Island at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on November 8 in Moscow - these are flowers.
original
one more picture link
PS From myself, I note that I suspected that everything was very interesting, but did not know that the time difference was so colossal.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/53319/
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