I was recently looking for a way to quickly check on multiple time zones on my iPhone, and I ended up buying Living Earth by Radiantlabs, a beautiful world clock and weather app that looks great on ...

It takes 24 hours for the Earth to rotate once on its axis. We split the globe into time zones using imaginary lines called meridians. They run from the North Pole to the South Pole, crossing ...

It’s true that each crew member may want to see in the new year according to the time zone of their home on Earth. But considering the U.S. and Russia have a total of 17 time zones between them ...

So what’s going on up there? On Earth, we have a great many time zones. At current count, they number around 40 or so. Officially, they’re pegged by their offset from Greenwich Mean Time.

The idea of dividing the world into geographical zones is ancient ... This is understandable, given that knowledge about the Earth's tectonic plates was formed during a period when we also ...