Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 22, 2016

If there’s no time zone in Antarctica, how will you know how many hours apart it is from another time zone? Western North America (British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Baja California) where I live for example.

TEMPLO S.U.D. Look up Universal Time, or Greenwich Mean Time(this was replaced by UT)

Alaska, a state that spans (east to west) almost the same width as the continental US, is on the international date line and only has one time zone that is earlier than Hawai’i by one hour. (There are a couple of the Aleutian Islands that share the same time as Hawai’i however). So by time standards, Alaska is not as far west as Hawai’i.The country of India is about the same width as Maine to Colorado (three time zones in the US) yet India has one common time zone for the entire country – UTC + 5 1/2 hours.

I just wish they’d set the US to a permanent Daylight Savings Time year round, so we would not have to change our clocks twice a year. Just roll it back and leave it there.

Antarctica doesn’t have a time zone because it’s on every line of longitude, according to “Time in Antarctica” on Wikipedia.

Does anybody really know what time it is ….

My watch stopped.

At the South Pole, every direction is North.

So is there a time zone at the North Pole?

If you’re standing on the North Pole, the tip of the earth’s axis, why do you not feel yourself turning?

Must be a pretty quiet movement. I’ve never heard of it.

How far apart would the two time zones be? Two hours?

Before the railroads, every town had its own local time (based on local noon). This made a railroad schedule difficult, so the railroads developed their own standard time, known as “railroad time”. Long story short, eventually, countries adopted a standard time similar to what the railroads were doing, with multiple zones as needed (with some exceptions, as noted above).

There is only one time. No matter where you are it is now.

Clock hands freeze so there is no need to know what time zone you are in.