World map of time zones, with the UTC−12 time zone highlighted. For any given date, the latest place on Earth where it would be valid, is on Howland and Baker Islands, in the IDLW time zone (the Western Hemisphere side of the International Date Line).
It is also referred to as the "latest time zone" on Earth, as clocks in it always show the 'latest' (i.e., most advanced) time of all time zones. UTC+14:00 stretches as far as 30° east of the 180° longitude line and creates a large fold in the International Date Line around the Pacific nation of Kiribati.
Happen to be on the mainland? (Another Hawaiian quirk: We call the entire continental U.S. “the mainland.”) Hawaii, which is part of the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone, is three hours behind the West Coast, five hours behind the Midwest, six hours behind the Eastern Seaboard, and ten hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.
Kiribati – pronounced Kiribas – is the only nation on Earth to permanently trespass into GMT+14: the earliest time zone in the world. You can think of Kiribati as the eternal land of tomorrow: if it's Sunday where you are, it's probably Monday in Kiribati.
The nation of Samoa also observed the same time as the Samoa Time Zone until it moved across the International Date Line at the end of 29 December 2011; it is now 24 hours (25 hours in southern hemisphere summer) ahead of American Samoa.
United States uses nine standard time zones from east to west. That means Beijing is 13 hours ahead of than Washington, New York, Boston, Atlanta; 14 hours ahead of Chicago; 16 hours ahead of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle; 18 hours ahead of Hawaii, etc.
There are 24 regions (Time Zones) around the world with a time difference of one hour. This system has been adopted internationally by setting the total time difference around the world as 24 hours.
Alaska is officially covered by two time zones - the Alaska Time Zone and the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone. The Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone is used for the Aleutian Islands west of 169°30′W (Islands of Four Mountains, Andreanof Islands, Rat Islands and Near Islands), and the rest of the state uses the Alaska Time Zone.
The international date line, established in 1884, passes through the mid-Pacific Ocean and roughly follows a 180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth. It is located halfway around the world from the prime meridian — the 0 degrees longitude line in Greenwich, England.
As each time zone is 1 hour apart, we could expect that in the world there were 24 time zones, however, several time zones are separated by 30 and 45 minutes, so the total number of time zones is 40.
One of the 33 islands that make up the Republic of Kiribati, Kiritimati is located almost directly south of Hawaii, within the same line of longitude—but celebrates New Year a full day earlier. (The amazing rebirth of the reefs of Kiribati's Line Islands.) That's a relatively recent development.
Owing to the number of territories it governs beyond Europe, France has 12 (and for a period of the year 13) time zones. Metropolitan France operates on Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), while its dependencies range from Tahiti Time (UTC-10) in French Polynesia to Wallis & Futuna Time (UTC+12) in the South Pacific.
In a country the size of China, one would expect to find several time zones. However, the whole country observes the same local time. In theory, China could have five time zones, but the country has only one official time zone.
The time zone that is farthest behind is Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12), the time on Baker and Howland Islands. However, those islands are officially uninhabited. The inhabited time zones that are farthest behind are American Samoa Standard Time (SST) and Niue Time (NUT). Both are UTC-11.
To travel to Hawaii from California, you would need to take a flight by airplane. Alternatively, you could consider taking a cruise or ship car by freight, although these options tend to be more expensive and time-consuming.
Arizona historically joined the rest of the country in observing DST during World Wars I and II, but that ended when the wars did. The big question is why? According to a 2007 article in the Arizona Daily Star, the simplest answer is that most of Arizona doesn't need an extra hour of sunlight in the evening.
China leads the world in 37 out of 44 critical technologies, with Western democracies falling behind in the race for scientific and research breakthroughs, a report by an Australian think tank has found.
Which two cities have the biggest time difference?
So which places have a timezone difference of 26 hours? The answer would be the Howland Islands and the Republic of Kiribati's Line Islands. Howland Islands is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States that uses a time zone of -12 hours UTC on the far west of the earth.