![]() The official clock time doesn't match the sun's clock, but people get used to it.Īnd as for making a planet larger, it makes no difference. For some people "noon" is at 10:00, for others it is at 14:00. But in both cases, the sun has just risen. When some people get up and have breakfast their clocks will say 6:00, while for other people it will say 10:00. But unlike other countries, China has only 1 official time zone, not 5. By the sun, one end of the country is 4 hours different from the other end. Most people aren't even aware of the concept. Does it bother me (and others) that our clocks are "wrong" by an hour and twenty minutes? Not at all. And then there is daylight saving time, which adds another hour. I'm located somewhat west of the center of my timezeone, so my clock is 20 minutes faster than a sun-based clock. The real problem is in thinking of time zones as a natural phenomenon. You don't need to consider another planet, Earth is sufficient for this question.
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