It’s a special offset time zone and a bonus time zone around the International Date Line.īy the way, daylight saving time is obviously very absurd. Yes, 38 is the number of time zones in the world, even though that adds up to 39.īecause of the weird UTC +13:45, which is only for New Zealand’s Chatham Islands (population: 800) and only during daylight saving time, which is counted in both the 2nd and 3rd types. 4 bonus time zones (around the International Date Line).
That rotation process takes 24 hours, so that’s the length of a day. It rotates on its axis, so that gives us night and day periods. The Earth is a sphere, so that’s 360 degrees in longitude.