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The time zone at the North Pole is the same as:
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Asked 2 years ago
by Jawn  United States |
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There is no permanent human presence at the North Pole, and no particular time zone has been assigned. Polar expeditions may use any time zone that is convenient, such as GMT, or the time zone of the country they departed from.
cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole - Time
There is no time measured in hours at the Poles as the sun will be at the same altitude throughout any particular day.
Not sure what you mean; of course time is measured in hours. But if you are from England then you can consider your watch to be correct (and in the same time zone as your own), and likewise if you are from Australia, or the United States... whatever is convenient to you.
Incidentally, I believe this means the correct answer is 'Both of them', but this isn't a contest. Not sure what it is, really, except a pleasant pastime. Enjoy your day. [smile]
A day is a natural event; the period between one sunrise and the next. An hour is a purely arbitary convention. 24 'hours' have, for convenience, been adopted throughout the world. If we were starting from scratch I suspect wé would end up with 10 'hours' each dived into 100 'minutes'.
And and 8-hr working day would become very tedious. ;)
Wrong. The sun does not stay at the same elevation angle throughout the day, because the earth's rotation axis is tilted relative to the sun.
You are right - except at the two equinoxes- so I should have said ALMOST at the same elevation.
Even then the sun appears to keep moving. The significance of the equinox is that at a point on the equator, the sun will be directly overhead at noon, and the length of the daylight period will be exactly 12 hours.
I didn't know that!
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