Some time zone issues that played a part in historical events and tragedies... including the sinking of the Titanic!
Before we hear about the Titanic, let’s first figure out what time zones are anyway.
Time zones are areas on Earth that have a specific time that all citizens of those regions set their clocks to. And these time zones start at a place — an imaginary place — called the prime meridian. This imaginary line runs vertically through the United Kingdom and splits the globe into the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere. All other time zones are set based on this imaginary line.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the time zone that runs along the prime meridian, symbolizing the universal starting point for every time zone in the world. Today, that time zone is formally known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), but GMT is the term more commonly used.
Now you may be wondering why we need time zones if they’re all based on an imaginary line that leads to more imaginary lines. I mean, we all like to imagine things, but lines… why?!
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