Definition of Time Zone

By time zone we understand the geographical structure artificially created by man to organize the hours of planet Earth in a successive and permanent way. The time zones are 24 artificial spaces that define the specific time of each region of the planet and that serve to know more accurately the time in which each part of the planet is in each moment.

One of the twenty-four longitudinal zones into which the planet is divided and which mark the hours in each country or region

So, the time zone is one of the twenty-four longitudinal areas in which our planet is divided. They are areas between two meridians that have a semicircle shape and each measure 15 degrees long, joined at the poles.

As the earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours, the aforementioned 24 time zones have been established.

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The time zones try to adapt to the forms of some countries in which the space of time does not vary much, but some territories Extensive ones such as the United States, Russia, China or Brazil, for example, require more than one time zone because, in fact, they live different moments of the day. Other time zones may encompass more than one country at the same time if they are small territories.

The time zones are 24 as 24 are the hours of the day. This means that, given this convention artificial of time, created by the human being to organize his life in a concrete way, each part of the planet will be in an hour different from those 24, more or less near the beginning or the end of the day. Thus, as a whole, the joint existence of 24 spaces, each with a different time, will mean the total number of hours for a day.

The Greenwich Meridian marks the beginning of the time zone count

The time zone in which the count begins is the one that is in the middle of the planet and that follows the line of the Meridian from Greenwich, located as a nerve center in the European city of London.

The hours will start from that time zone, Greenwich being hour 0. To the east of that time zone, that is, the time zones that follow to the right, each one must add one more hour. To the west, one hour will be subtracted for each time zone. The time zones are vertical lines that run just like the meridians, but some of them show some modifications that have been conventionally established to include nearby geographic territories within the same schedule.

The impact of time zone change on people

Having addressed the strictly theoretical question of time zones, we cannot ignore, dealing with this topic, the question that has to do with the impact that produces abrupt changes in time zones in people.

When we travel, of course to those parts of the planet that are more equidistant from ours, either in another hemisphere or continent, is that we can appreciate this question of the impact of the time zone on our body.

If we are Argentines and we travel to Japan we will have a time difference of 12 hours, with 12 less in favor of Argentina. While in Argentina it is 2:47 p.m., in Japan it will be 02:47 in the morning.

Meanwhile, if we take Argentina again, but in relation to the United States, a country that has different time zones depending on the state, we will say that in the Pacific zone In the west there is a difference of four hours less with respect to Argentina, while in the east that difference is shortened to only one hour and in the central zone there are two hours less than Argentina.

Any relevant time change, such as the one marked with Japan, will have a tremendous and negative influence on the rest of the tourist Argentine since when they sleep in Japan he is used to being awake. It takes a while for the body to readjust.
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