Today, it’s standard to have multiple time zones around the world. But the history of how we got to this point has been ...

On March 1, 2024, everyone in Kazakhstan woke up in the same time zone. From the western city of Aktau to Oskemen in the far east, the workday started at the same time. In January 2024, the government ...

American and Canadian railroads enacted time zones — a concept that schedules all aspects of life today — on this day in history, Nov. 18, 1883. The rail industry's creation of time zones was a brazen ...

In early January the sun does not rise in Kashgar, in China’s far west, until after 10am. Across the border, in eastern Afghanistan, it rises before 7am. That difference is the greatest jump in time ...

Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes. In Baltimore 6. New Yorkers lost about 4 minutes. Those in Atlanta said goodbye to 22 ...

In the U.S. there are six time zones. Hawaii (HST) and Alaska (AKST) both have their own time zones, and the rest of the continental U.S. operates on these four time zones: There are two time zones in ...

There are 24 main time zones in the world. Each zone is one hour apart from the next. Some countries follow their own local time, which makes the total number even higher. Time zones help us keep ...

Maps are of little help when it comes to size comparisons, World Population Review says. They can be misleading because they’re two-dimensional representations of a three-dimensional world. A more ...

Lebanon woke up in two time zones on Sunday after the government’s last-minute decision to delay daylight savings until the end of Ramadan resulted in mass confusion. Caretaker prime minister Najib ...