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ZONE TIME.: EXAMPLE. - Find The Zone Time of 97 W. Longitude

1) Traveling west requires retarding clocks by one hour each hour to maintain local time, while traveling east requires advancing clocks by one hour each hour. 2) If departing at noon on the same Monday, a westbound plane would arrive at the same time but on Monday, while an eastbound plane would arrive 48 hours later on Wednesday to maintain local time. 3) When crossing the 180th meridian, the date should be changed to maintain the calendar, advancing it for westbound travel and retarding it for eastbound travel.

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ZONE TIME.: EXAMPLE. - Find The Zone Time of 97 W. Longitude

1) Traveling west requires retarding clocks by one hour each hour to maintain local time, while traveling east requires advancing clocks by one hour each hour. 2) If departing at noon on the same Monday, a westbound plane would arrive at the same time but on Monday, while an eastbound plane would arrive 48 hours later on Wednesday to maintain local time. 3) When crossing the 180th meridian, the date should be changed to maintain the calendar, advancing it for westbound travel and retarding it for eastbound travel.

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TIME

360˚ arc = 24h. time.


15˚ arc = 1h.
1˚ arc = 4m.

The one going west will have to retard his clocks by one hour every hour if he wishes to keep
local time (L.M.T.). The other must advance his clock one hour every for the same reason. Suppose they
both left on Monday at noon then the one going west according to his clock has done the journey in no
time and it will still be Monday; whilst the eastbound plane has taken 48 hours by his clock and has
arrived on Wednesday. To keep local time in step with the calendar the date should be changed when
crossing the 180th meridian called the date line. The westbound craft should advance the calendar one
day and the eastbound craft retard the calendar one day so that they both arrive back at the Greenwich
meridian at the same date, Tuesday, as well as the same time. This applies to all ships crossing the 180th
meridian whilst keeping local time.

The date line does not coincide with the 180th meridian exactly being bent around some of the
South Sea islands in order to avoid local complications.

123. ZONE TIME. – On land masses it would be inconvenient if neighboring places kept their
clocks strictly to local time. It is more usual to keep time according to a standard meridian which is a
multiple of 15˚, in other words local time to the nearest hour. This is called standard time. When this
practice is adopted at sea it is called zone time.

To find zone time divide the longitude by 15. If the remainder is less than half (7 ½ ˚) neglect it,
but if the remainder is greater than 7 ½ ˚ add one more to the result.

Zone time is called + in W. longitude and – in E. longitude.

The boundary lines of each hourly zone at a sea therefore follow the meridians of 7 ½ ˚, 22 ½ ˚ ,
37 ½ ˚, etc.

EXAMPLE. – Find the zone time of 97˚ W. longitude

97
= 6 hrs. remainder 7˚ (neglect)
15
97˚ W. keeps zone time + 6 hrs.

Find zone time of 117˚ E.


117
= 7 remainder 12 (add one) = 8 hours
15

117˚ E. keeps zone time – 8 hours.

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