Why Do We Have Time Zones?

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Mr. Beat explains time zones. He goes through the history of time zones and explains why we have them in the first place. Don't forget to check out ‪@ScienceAsylum‬'s video here: • A "Day" Isn't What It ...
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A time zone is a region of the Earth where everyone agrees it’s the same time. Also referred to as “local time,” most time zones are exactly one hour apart.
People travel through time all the time thanks to time zones. Yep, just by going west you can go BACK IN TIME. But go too far west and you’re in the future. But don’t worry. Just travel back east and you’ll get back to the past. Oh boy I am already losing many of you.
Now, we’ve been dividing each day into 24 hours going back to, like, the ancient Egyptians. And because most of us still measure how long a day is by hours, the idea is that there would be 24 time zones around the earth, ya know...since the Earth rotates about 15 degrees every hour. After 24 hours, that’s a full rotation of 360 degrees for a full day. So you’d have 24 lunes, or shapes that look like this, all 15 degrees of longitude apart and boom, we all live happily ever after.
But no, that’s not how time zones are shaped. And in fact, there are more than 24 time zones! In fact, as many as 39 time zones?
Now originally there WERE 24 standard time zones that extended from the South Pole to the North Pole, but due to mainly politics and geography, time zones are often very skewed.
First, it’s important to remember that before the invention of the railroad, time zones weren’t really needed. If you traveled before railroads were invented, you traveled by...uh...walking. If you were lucky, you might get to travel by horse, or if you were even luckier you might get to travel by ship. But by the time railroads were more common in the 1830s and into the 1840s, this made travel time way faster and really screwed up communication about what time it was.
But the British had been thinking about this problem long before the railroads came. As they established an empire around the world beginning in the 1600s, some back in London realized they needed to standardize a way of measuring time to help mariners when they were determining longitude when out at sea. So they’d reference wherever they were back to London. It wasn’t until 1721, however, that Great Britain officially created its own prime meridian, or Earth’s zero degrees longitude, passing through their newly established Royal Observatory in Greenwich, a borough in London. Other countries established their own prime meridian, of course, usually passing through THEIR capital cities and yeah they called it different things.
Flash forward to the 1840s, and now we had railroads to worry about. At every railway stop, the local time would be different. That led to railroad companies establishing the first time zones that matched their imaginary prime meridians that ran through their capital cities.

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@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

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@adweetiyamohapatra7326 2 жыл бұрын

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@Cheerios100 2 жыл бұрын

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@Lucabnt 2 жыл бұрын

@sharkronical 2 жыл бұрын

12:12 AM lol

@mattbeatgoeson 2 жыл бұрын

@@Lucabnt DID YOU EAT THE SPINACH OR NOT?!?

@patrickmartin3322 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve experienced a 10 hour flight, from Tokyo to Seattle, where it landed 8 hours before it took off, and thanks to this I have experienced being awake for 32 hours in one day

@jairoiii6571 2 ай бұрын

So that’s how people play games 25 hours a day 8 days a week 6 weeks a month 13 months a year 11 years a decade 11 decades in a century

@awangkumohamaddanishbinawangja 2 күн бұрын

is it fun?

@SiVlog1989 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite legacies of the implementation of Time Zones is in the English city of Bristol. At first glance, the clock on the Corn Exchange building is a standard clock with Roman Numerals on its face. However, on closer inspection, there're two minute hands. Before the introduction of a standard time zone in Britain, Bristol was 11 minutes behind London time. The clock on Bristol's Corn Exchange reflects this, one minute hand is on the Official London Time, the other is on Bristol Time. Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear and latterly Grand Tour fame) said in his program about Isombard Kingdom Brunel, when referring to his railway that ran from London to Bristol: "[the railway] moved this city forward 100 years and 11 minutes,"

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

That's a fun story. Thanks for sharing!

@rd76pag 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't realized how complicated time zones are. We humans make the simplest things very unnecessarily complicated.

@SamAronow 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Aharon ben Meir proposed the introduction of time zones in the early 10th century.

@everythingdibs344 2 жыл бұрын

Big fan of your channel

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

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@Seven71987 2 жыл бұрын

This guy is a devil (ABM).

@michaelweiske702 2 жыл бұрын

@@Seven71987 ?

@MicBain 2 жыл бұрын

I'm an art streamer based in Australia, but most of my clients are in the USA and Canada, I'm constantly asking people "what is your GMT timezone?" (so they can watch me create their work live) and nobody ever has any idea what I'm talking about 😆

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah both GMT and UTC 🙂

@MicBain 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat yeah I tried asking for UTC too, to no avail haha. It's always "Pacific time" or "mountain time" etc

@jaidenwbr 2 жыл бұрын

Every TIME I watch a Mr. Beat video, I am satisfied. Thank you for taking the TIME to make these videos.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy your TIME watching them. :D

@Compucles 2 жыл бұрын

The need for time standardization is about more than just being able to travel and communicate quickly with far away places. It's also about the increased need to be exact about when things are supposed to happen. As technology and society have advanced, it's become more and more necessary to schedule meetings and other things within a minute or two of everyone's expectations, something that doesn't work if you can only rely on a single large public clock in each individual town, each of which could be set to whatever time the mayor or other public officials preferred. You're right that railroads were a big factor, but it was mostly because people needed to know close to exactly when the trains would be arriving at each station and for the train employees to make sure the trains did indeed arrive at those times.

@rayfridley6649 2 жыл бұрын

Time zones for railroads were needed for safety reasons, Local times would be wildly different . Often two trains were traveling in opposite directions on the same track. One train scheduled to go at 9:00 am local time in one direction while the other was to start in the opposite direction at the same time, which is not the same hour as the first train. The two trains would meet in a head long collision, killing and injuring any passengers on board as well as damaging any freight also on board.

@PuglordGabe 2 жыл бұрын

I know the borders for the time zones are icky, but it makes sense that countries adjust the time zones to match their populated zones and borders. It would be really confusing if the time zones cut through cities and towns and whatnot; you would be in one town and go shopping and end up an hour into the future. I think it’s probably for the best that time zones are weirdly drawn to avoid this.

@seanbeadles7421 2 жыл бұрын

China is a bit crazy though, someone in Lhasa and someone in Harbin in the same time zone, meaning in Lhasa the sun doesn’t rise until 10am. Only in Xinjiang is there a different time zone.

@PuglordGabe 2 жыл бұрын

@@seanbeadles7421 that’s fair, China’s definitely way too large to get away with one time zone.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

You make an excellent point. However, here's another hot take- get rid of borders.

@PuglordGabe 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat 🤔

@heronimousbrapson863 2 жыл бұрын

Most time zones are one hour apart. Newfoundland: "What?"

@osberswgaming 2 жыл бұрын

I had a great TIME watching this video, now my knowledge on TIME zones has probably increased multiple TIMEs. Thanks for taking the TIME to make this video!

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed my TIME reading your comment. In fact, I have a great TIME any time I read your comments. 😊

@osberswgaming 2 жыл бұрын

you’re seriously one of the only big KZfaqrs I know that seem to have TIME to read and respond to comments on their videos

@AakashKumar-tn6yh 2 жыл бұрын

LAMAO what the f*ck is going on here😂😂😂😂😂😂

@moses4769 2 жыл бұрын

I love the thumbnail😂

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

heh heh, Mrs. Beat gave it a weird look

@KayleeCee 2 жыл бұрын

I got so mixed up on time this last week. I flew down to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on October 24th. PVR is in the central standard time zone, and so is my home in the US, so that part was easy. But Mexico turns their clocks back a week earlier than we do in the US, so I went through that time change on the 31st during my visit. I came home on Nov. 4th, which gave me almost enough time to readjust only to have to do the whole thing again on the 7th. I'll just say that it's a really good thing that my phone and watch change the time automatically, otherwise I wouldn't have had any idea what time it was supposed to be for the last several days.

@GeneaVlogger 2 жыл бұрын

My first introduction to GMT was when I started getting really into editing Wikipedia.

@TheAlexSchmidt 2 жыл бұрын

I think UTC technically, yeah they update the day at midnight UTC.

@GeneaVlogger 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAlexSchmidt Yep, they call it UTC but when I went to read up about UTC is when I learned about GMT.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

ha! Yeah I forgot how stringent the GMT records on there are. :)

@penwithoutasword9459 2 жыл бұрын

When I worked at AT&T, we just agreed to use GMT. Everyone had a clock with GMT and saved the hassle when daylight savings hell started. Typically all computer servers should use GMT.

@FantomMC2 2 жыл бұрын

UTC MASTER TIME! :) Haha, kidding. GMT and UTC are similar.

@penwithoutasword9459 2 жыл бұрын

@@FantomMC2 indeed. UTC uses the atomic clock with which most servers are currently synchronized.

@corneilusdonaldson1858 2 жыл бұрын

That's what the US military uses as well

@SalutExpla 2 жыл бұрын

It's about TIME to watch Mr. Beat's new video!.. hehe

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

YOU got this

@JakeyG-eq1un 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: In India (London, not big India, the one near Greenwich, there is a big line on the floor for GMT 0, I've been there

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I want to go myself.

@allieniner675 2 жыл бұрын

I actually like time zones (except for daylight savings time). I live in QLD, Australia and it’s great :)

@compphysgeek 4 ай бұрын

what are you complaining about? In Queensland you don't have daylight savings time.

@nate9952 2 жыл бұрын

The more you mention getting rid of timezones all together, the more it makes sense. Moving to a place which doesn't participate in daylight savings (Arizona) made me realize how redundant that nonsense is.

@tylere.8436 2 жыл бұрын

It's really that daylight savings is the most nonsensical thing ever conceived! If people need to 'save daylight' perhaps they can just wake up earlier. Now there is the argument on if you are far from the equator, the daylight is decreased in the winter time, but you can't really increase daylight, it's just where you live. Basically, Daylight Saving Time should be damned for all eternity and stick with normal Standard Time, where noon has the sun always at it's zenith.

@alliciayork2815 2 жыл бұрын

Now, I am more convinced that time zones and daylight savings are ridiculous.

@revolutionaryape7568 2 жыл бұрын

I always wait for Friday because of Mr. Beat's cool and knowledgeable videos. Hats off, Mr. Beat!

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

You uplift me.

@revolutionaryape7568 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat I'm Glad!

@parker_perdue 2 жыл бұрын

Love your content Mr. Beat!

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Parker!

@KhAnubis 2 жыл бұрын

Huh, I guess Liberia‘s a bit late to adopting quite a few things

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

AHEM...METRIC SYSTEM

@DarwinskiYT 2 жыл бұрын

Good county flags

@lucinae8510 2 жыл бұрын

But were quick to using Flash animation in creating their county flags. Seriously, look up Lofa and River Gee!

@grantexploit5903 2 жыл бұрын

As a USian, I’m all for metrication in principle. What I’m not for is the government making people and organizations switch measurement systems by force, which is what metrication has historically meant.

@16ktsgamma 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat The US hates using the Metric system too. But it's easier for science reasons and we only have one part of the road with the Metric system. A random Highway in Arizona. And all of the food that we know, has Grams in them that we measure to the community. So overall we, American do use the Metric system just not very well.

@bertblankenstein3738 2 жыл бұрын

Tom Scott does an excellent video of how complicated it is to program/determine the time in the past. You need to know the histories of all the time zones, boundaries, etc, irregularities in the calendar.

@SumErgoMonstro Жыл бұрын

It's one of my faves. The last line is priceless.

@lukedetering4490 2 жыл бұрын

I live in the US Central time zone and my cousins are on EST. Always fun when we schedule something as we often forget what time zone we agreed to meet on.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

FOR REAL. I am constantly having meetings with folks in other time zones, and it gets me all the time. At least it's a great excuse for being late to a meeting. 😅

@jensschroder8214 2 жыл бұрын

France tried a clock with 20 hours, the meter was adopted by the other countries, but the 20 hour day refused. Germany set Berlin as the standpoint for the right time. This was carried into the country by railroad. Germany had no luck in the war, but enforced the "Berlin time" and right-hand traffic in Europe. Even Spain said that the clocks in Madrid should go like in Berlin. Portugal refused and went with England.

@msitts98 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t really say we NEED time zones but I think a lot of us want them because the daylight cycle is just convenient. who wants to sleep when it’s light out or be pitch black at noon?

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Meh, we could get used to it

@Roxor128 2 жыл бұрын

Meh. You'd just get used to the clock reading 04:00 at sunset and 16:00 at sunrise. If you moved somewhere else, you'd get used to seeing it say 18:00 and 06:00 instead.

@abrahamlincoln937 2 жыл бұрын

When it’s 6:38 pm in New York City, it’s 5:38 pm in Chicago, it’s 4:38 pm in Denver and it’s 3:38 pm in Los Angeles.

@juanatrujillo9115 2 жыл бұрын

How do you feel about John Wilkes booth

@michaelstanley5575 2 жыл бұрын

I've always found timezones fascinating. Thanks for adding to my knowledge in this area.

@jquas1965 2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I think we need them. I like having the sun ☀️ directly above at 12 noon 🕛.

@Raiden-the-Goat32 2 жыл бұрын

@@jquas1965 But does that equal a need or a preference?

@michaelstanley5575 2 жыл бұрын

I think we think they make us more comfortable - an old world convention we don't want to let go of. But I think we'd adjust to not having them and be better off in the long run. I think simplicity is best. But there's room for argument both ways.

@markhinton250 2 жыл бұрын

A good song for this video would have been "Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?" by Chicago, or Chicago Transit Authority, as they were called at the TIME.

@sophierobinson2738 2 жыл бұрын

Good old days.

@L0RDK3Y 2 жыл бұрын

Jjaskkkss

@e815usa 2 жыл бұрын

Now Mr. Beat, do a companion piece, "Why Daylight Saving Time Exists" and discuss where in the world it's observed, and why it's different in the US and everywhere else!

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I think I'll plan that for the Spring!

@sophierobinson2738 2 жыл бұрын

DST is down to golfers wanting an extra hour to knock a ball around.

@klikkolee 2 жыл бұрын

Most people's schedules are synced with the sun. This is to be expected since the human circadian rhythm typically syncs with the sun. This makes local time a very good indicator of what a person will be doing. I often ask people what timezone they're in so I can quickly guestimate when they'll be busy, asleep, etc.

@brobb00 2 жыл бұрын

Happy belated birthday, Mr. Beat! Also I appreciate the time puns, so good job.

@DarkHorseSki 2 жыл бұрын

Time zones by hour based on solar noon actually make sense given what NOON means and that it has a real value.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Good point

@johntom5049 2 жыл бұрын

"It's time to get a watch" hahahaha

@matthewbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I sadly used to say this all the time. 😄

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

It never gets old

@herschelwright4663 2 жыл бұрын

I finally have the time to watch this great video.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Oh snap. About TIME. Great comment and glad you dug it.

@gregm766 2 жыл бұрын

17:20 It's true! I left Okinawa at 12 noon June 7th, 1988 and I arrived in L.A. at 10:00 A.M. June 7th, 1988!

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty crazy.

@route2070 2 жыл бұрын

"And they all lived happily ever after......Well not really." Said about a major international agreement, that not everyone was apart of. That truly is something that doesn't happen often. Same goes for "What the heck are you doing Australia?" Also no fun with DPRK and their time?

@eddiestilll 2 жыл бұрын

it's time to watch another awesome mr. beat video :D

@shashankshekhar9384 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic Video Mr. Beat!

@moses4769 2 жыл бұрын

Back to the future was one of the best and most confusing movies ever

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I finally understood it after watching it literally 50 times. My favorite trilogy ever!

@nateb69 2 жыл бұрын

Stay far far away from Tenet then...

@cheneethompson5756 2 жыл бұрын

When I first saw it, I was very confused But grew to love it!

@thejumboshrimp 2 жыл бұрын

Ah man, if this was just a week or 2 earlier, I could have used this as a source for my science fair project that involves time. Welp, better luck next TIME I guess!

@rparl 2 жыл бұрын

Years ago I got a desk clock which would change between Standard and Daylight times automatically. A little later Congress changed the dates.

@sophierobinson2738 2 жыл бұрын

We need time zones to keep us from calling a friend on the other side of the world when it's noon here and midnight there.

@cheneethompson5756 2 жыл бұрын

Amen to taht!

@AvaSession7Ex 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this channel.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

@gguerard 2 жыл бұрын

So much I didn't know about time zones! Thanks for the video.

@jandraelune1 2 жыл бұрын

You can time travel without crossing timezone boundaries. Spherical rotation, the line of rotation is the same speed at the pole as the equator, but the distance in which that line covers is greatly different. The time dilation at the equator is slower than at the poles. Russia use to have a single time zone across its entire 11+ longitude degrees.

@billytompkins6694 2 жыл бұрын

Im absolutely delighted you pronounced ' ' Greenwich ' correctly. Alot of Americans pronounce it as Green - wich, which is to be fair how its spelt but we like to confuse people. I grew up quite close to Greenwich. The place is in the middle of Greenwich park which is a large park and we used to go every christmas day for a walk. Its right be the momunent to James Wolfe, a general who helped beat French forces in modern day Canada and helping the North American continent being predominantly Anglo rather than Gallic.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I hope to visit Greenwich next year actually!

@billytompkins6694 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat Im sure youll have a great time. There is alot of History there and it is a beautiful part of London.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

@@billytompkins6694 Yeah, we also plan on going up to Scotland.

@billytompkins6694 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat I hope the Beat family has a wonderful time :)

@flannn6 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Just came in from the asylum, and already liked your content. Keep it up! And remember, it's okay to be a little crazy.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Yay! Glad you dig his channel as well.

@jquas1965 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact the island of Newfoundland is 30 minutes ahead of the Atlantic time zone and 30 minutes behind the Greenland time zone.

@Anonymoususer44569 2 жыл бұрын

The time is 13.8 billion years

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

That's what my watch says, too

@gregblair5139 6 ай бұрын

24 hours in a day? We're changing the day to have ten metric hours, each having 100 metric minutes, in turn each having 100 seconds!

@cheneethompson5756 2 жыл бұрын

I KNEW he would play that back to the future clip! I wasn't surprised when it popped up! 88 MILES PER HOUR!

@buzyparticals3753 2 жыл бұрын

It's always a good day when Mr beat uploads.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Well thank you. And remember, there are 24 hours in a day. 😄

@woowooNeedsFaith 2 жыл бұрын

You two convinced me that time zones are unnecessary complication. Could we get rid of time zones faster than we get rid of daylight savings?

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know. Maybe it's TIME we start a movement. 😏

@gamorro 2 жыл бұрын

The history of the Longitude is so fascinating that your 3 second mention is not fair at all. Thanks to the Need to measure Longitude in high seas, that lead to the invention of the chronometer, way more precise clocks and a way to make clocks more accurate to the average man.

@richardsleep2045 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, love your "telephone". Thanks.

@ron6285 2 жыл бұрын

You should be on TIME Magazine Mr. Beat! For your History Videos and stuff!!

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there and thank you. 🙂

@ron6285 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat your welcome!

@xbubblehead 2 жыл бұрын

I travel through time without bothering with time zones. I actually have visited the 1940's, the 1980's, and many other different times.

@sup2069 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely done! Came over from Nicks channel!

@ShihammeDarc 10 ай бұрын

The British 0 degrees longitude was oddly convenient since it meant the date line was in the middle of the pacific ocean and not in some densely inhabited place where people would go back to the previous day if they traveled from California to Arizona for example

@xdanbo1859 2 жыл бұрын

This was a good video, I might have added a small part explaining that about UTC and why it is NOT the exact same thing as GMT. UTC is time standard and GMT is a time zone with a UTC offset of zero, but that does not make them the same. I remember this scene on Entourage when E argued with Johnny about half hour time zones. The writers were trying to make out that E was "smart" and Johnny was stupid. But me a time geek, knew it just made the writers of the show look really ignorant. I really want to find that clip.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Good point. I probably should have added that bit. Maybe a future #short? And I never watched that show before.

@ERiQTENDO Жыл бұрын

The question is not what time it is. The questions IS what NOW it is?

@vigneshb2052 2 жыл бұрын

Could you do a Supreme Court brief on US v Nixon? I love your videos and they’re so informative and entertaining to watch

@user-xe7oh6fu1s 2 жыл бұрын

12:22 Blooper: The street slogan before the DAH SING BANK says: "SUE THE HK GOVERNMENT FOR COVERING THE BANK OF ITS FRAUD, SEEING IT WITHOUT SETTLING THE CLAIMS." Anybody knows what happened?

@altuber99_athlete 2 жыл бұрын

What a masterpiece of video!

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Woah thanks Alejandro!

@kenhenderson1762 2 жыл бұрын

Bob Costas tells a great story of a basketball player who's team was flying from Louisville to St. Louis. The airport sign said the flight was leaving at 9 AM and arriving at 8:45 AM. The player said "Man, I ain't gettin' on no time machine!"

@austynkersey1982 2 жыл бұрын

We kinda do need timezones because it would be weird if midnight was in the middle of the day and Tuesday because Wednesday in the middle of the day.

@violet_silly9929 2 жыл бұрын

without time zones you will have a very similar issue in communicating, namely youd have to know what the hour means to them universal time, noon may be say the middle of the day for you, but the middle of the night on the opposite side of the world you do literally just a more complex version of converting timezones cause there would be no direct wording for it anymore and we base time around the sun cause thats what we instinctually do as per our internal clocks, our determination of awake and asleep is generally based on the sun it may make scheduling seem easier without timezones, but because of that factor of not knowing what apparent time of day that is to someone else negates its benefits as youd have to communicate the difference anyway without easily effective wording

@Urlocallordandsavior 2 жыл бұрын

Love how you mentioned a lot of the history behind time zones, though maybe you should've said a thing or two about DST and it's history ;)

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

I'm actually planning a whole separate video!

@joysticksweat8109 2 жыл бұрын

Found your channel from a comment under a cynical historian video, amazing content man

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@ivanzenteno2771 2 жыл бұрын

I think we can definitely get rid of daylight savings time but at the end of the day is it really so wrong to have time zones? Like yeah we can technically do without them and might even be more efficient without them but you can say that about a lot of things we do as humans.

@whittierfm 2 жыл бұрын

Even more absurd than time zones is trying to figure out why we still use a 7 day week.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

🤯

@arthurschamne 2 жыл бұрын

Not only should we get rid of time zones and daylight savings time, but we also should go to a 24 hour clock instead of the 12 hour clock we are use to

@zerrickishadow7601 2 жыл бұрын

TIME to watch Mr. Beat

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

@ivanfoofoo 2 жыл бұрын

I think Mr. Beat would make an excellent Riddler

@WDCallahan 2 жыл бұрын

My computer has over 400 time definitions. For each time zone, places go in and out of DST at different times!

@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515 2 жыл бұрын

Your computer has one time and n conversion factors for i/o. Seriously, they are all UTC +/- nn:nn.

@PoliticsMadeSimple 2 жыл бұрын

Aight let’s go!

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

It's time!

@Zickcermacity 5 ай бұрын

We live on a round planet. It's that simple. If you kneel down on the concourse floor of a really long shopping mall, you can see a half to one inch of Earth's curvature just inside that mall! (Do this early before it's crowded, so other folks don't wonder what the heck yer doing, lol!). That curvature adds up to about eight inches in one mile, and by two miles over two feet. But since the average adult's eyeballs are 5 to 5 and a half feet above the ground, our "personal" horizons - the edge of sky and land - can be several miles away. If the Earth were a perfectly smooth ball, like the shiny plastic ones you buy in the toy aisle, we would see the curvature every time we went outside, or looked out a window. But it's not. The surface undulates, with hills and mountains, trees, and manmade features. So it's a lot harder to detect, unless you go up high, where commercial jets fly. The sun is always rising or setting somewhere, but because of our round Earth, that somewhere changes with every passing minute. Because of a round Earth, even Noon itelf is a fuzzy concept, arriving in places in an east to west direction. Noon also arrives every 23 hours and fifty minutes during some months, and 24hours 10minutes during others. This is because, depending on where Earth is located on its orbit around the sun, it both moves a little faster around the Sun, or a bit slower. Zoning and standardizing time simply made the daylight and dark periods for daily life more consistent, with less worry about things in the previous paragraph. It also helps when scheduling travel across multiple time zones, whether by plane, or by slower train or ship. Scheduling work, school, and the times of entertainment(TV broaddcasts, etc), as well as the times of video coneferences, such as on Zoom, also benefit from standardized time.

@EmmetTheFox 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative! What's your opinion on day light savings, Mr. Beat?

@Eric-go7uw 2 жыл бұрын

This is the reason why your videos are uploaded on Saturdays on me.

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

🤯

@zjzr08 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching a video about it on another channel, where why not just have a universal time, and adjust the schedules based on your time zone. That being said, I think the concept of time zone is mostly due to how we assign time on the position of the sun during that day. 6 AM usually meant sunrise, 6 PM usually meant sunset, 12 PM usually means noon, and 12 AM usually means midnight. AM and PM is the indication of "midday" so if we will remove time zones using these terms won't make sense as it won't be relative to the sun. EDIT: Found the YT link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5dke9uEsNmrl4U.html

@TheOneSin7 2 жыл бұрын

A 15° per hour drift? Thanks Bob!

@emizerri 2 жыл бұрын

As a British person I must admit I'm very proud

@maikotter9945 2 жыл бұрын

How do you feel about BreXit? Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Schleswig-Holstein.

@jasoncowley4718 2 жыл бұрын

I lived 50 metres from the New South Wales Queensland border, live it up one side and when the clubs shut for the morning, hop over the border and have an extra hour of par-tay time.

@virgilflowers9846 2 жыл бұрын

Haha! I was watching old episodes of Home Improvement last night. It’s always Tool Time at my house

@matthewbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Mine too! lol

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

Oops, that was my personal channel. Tell no one.

@virgilflowers9846 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat Your secret is out! Lol, it’s one of those shows that really hits the nostalgia button for me. And how can you not love Al Borland and Wilson?!

@cheneethompson5756 2 жыл бұрын

Home improvement is hilarious!

@JasonTaylor-po5xc 2 жыл бұрын

I believe the desire for noon to be when the sun is directly overhead comes from when we used sundials. It also persisted to the point to where each time had their own local time - even off by just a few minutes. I think it is so ingrained in us that most of us desire noon to be the midpoint of the day. Now that we have the technology to synchronize to one time, that might prove to be better for some things - but most of us have nocturnal sleep cycles - so our work day would still set around the solar cycle regardless of the clock says.

@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515 2 жыл бұрын

I look at time zones and how time is used as an interesting window into the systems we create conduct modern society. We use time to synchronize communications and transactions. This is done by legal authorities to create a time that can be agreed upon so contracts begin and end on time. This matters when you calculate interest on a loan, for example. In the real world the only time that really matters is UTC. Everything else is an administrative construct for the conduct of government and trade. Personally, I use local time to stay legal when I go fishing because state fish and game says no fishing before dawn. I use federal time when I trade stock or pay taxes. All the important dates and times are defined in utc, and called whatever they want (usually so it lines up with the current standard).

@antivalidisme5669 2 жыл бұрын

"What the heck are you doing Australia?" Guess a cassowary ate the code, and no one would dare to approach it!

@KaiKunstmann 2 жыл бұрын

You haven't even touched the horrors of time zones in IT! A time zone is not just "a region where everyone agrees on the same time" - everyone also agrees on the same set of rules that apply. For instance, Arizona and Utah share the same "Mountain Standard Time" during the winter months, but Arizona has opted to discontinue the daylight savings time (DST) during summer since 1968 (after having it applied only once since WWII in 1967; because everyone was shifting their daily activities into cooler evening hours, anyway, so getting up one hour early didn't make any sense, and there was a dispute). The Navajo Nation, which is mostly situated in Arizona, has opted NOT to discontinue DST, because the discontinuation wouldn't have applied to its non-Arizona parts in Utah and New Mexico. So the Navajo Nation as a whole can observe Mountain DST during summer in all three states. The Hopi reservation, which is entirely situated within the Arizona part of the Navajo Nation, has opted to go along with Arizonas discontinuation of DST, even though they are entirely enclosed by the DST observing Navajo Nation. Thus, if you are going the north route around the Grand Canyon from Las Vegas to Albuquerque during winter (outside of any summer DST), you only have to adjust your clock once - as you cross the border from Nevada to Arizona, which has Standard Mountain Time all over the place including the Navajo Nation and Hopi reservation, just like Utah and New Mexico. But if you dare to do the same trip during summer, you must NOT change your clock at the Nevada/Arizona border (because Nevada observes DST while Arizona does not, so PDT ends up to be the same as MST), but you have to adjust your clock multiple times during the Mountain Time trip depending on whether you are in plain Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, the Navajo Nation and/or one of multiple Hopi reservation enclaves. Now, this is so tedious, that everyone simply adjusts their clocks only once upon arrival in Albuquerque. Because each of these special cases is just an exception to the next bigger rule set, and each exception came into existance one after the other, a computer program handling historic Arizona data, not only has to know the time zone and proper location in Arizona in order to correctly interpret a timestamp, it also has to evaluate whether a certain rule set was in existance, yet, or not. In fact, if you think about it, every time zone is not just defined by its spacial coordinates but also by its temporal ones, when it came into existance, and when it ceased to exist, as well as intermediate territorial and legislative changes. It is one thing to apply the "current" rule set as you physically move from one time zone to another, but it's a whole new class of problems if you have to determine the active rule set for a given place at a certain instant of time. Computing time is by far the most complicated field in computer science, by which I mean: Internally, all modern computer systems nowadays simply represent time as a monotonic counter of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00 ("Unix epoch"; ignoring leap seconds for simplicity), while conversion from and to human readable representations is only done for - well - human interaction, which is allowed to fail.

@sharkronical 2 жыл бұрын

It's time for watching Mr Beat's video

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

YAS

@floridapanhandling3136 2 жыл бұрын

Not that anyone cares, but at 14:33, the bottom right image is from where I live... interestingly, Gulf County, FL (located south of the Jackson County referenced in that pic) is split in half by CST and EST... I think it’s pretty rare for a county to be split into two time zones, but it’s got to be a pain in the butt for the folks who live there.

@JNCressey 2 жыл бұрын

I think we should keep time zones but whenever saying a time, always either state the utc offset or convert to utc. eg: - the store opens at 10:00, UTC-08:00. - the livestream starts at 21:00, UTC.

@thetalkinghead123 2 жыл бұрын

first time i been early to mr beats class

@iammrbeat 2 жыл бұрын

You showed up on time!

@thetalkinghead123 2 жыл бұрын

@@iammrbeat i genuinely wish i could have had you in high school, all of my history teachers except for one had dull personalities

@Zhixalom 2 жыл бұрын

Flipping back and forth between this video and Nick's in a constant loop is enough to drive yourself methol, although I do prefer eucalyptus. I guess it's about time go get myself committed... or is it admitted... well, I'll at least admit that I'm probably not entirely committed to know the difference 🤪

@Vandalia1998 Жыл бұрын

11 Am EDT for me right now

@twylanaythias 2 жыл бұрын

Two factors which you might be overlooking as to why GMT became the Prime Meridian: A ) The British Empire ~ Even into the early 20th century, "the sun never set" on the British Empire. Pretty much anyplace in the world that had need for clocks - from Canada to Australia - was part of the British Empire. From this perspective, the Prime Meridian running through the 'home office' of the Empire was something of a no-brainer. B ) Geography ~ By 'happy coincidence', 180° from Greenwich, England is.... pretty much nothing - the Bering Straight (though the Aleutians do cross it), a bunch of tiny isolated islands, and the veritable 'desert' of the Pacific Ocean. Some people find it awkward crossing between time zones on a regular basis, but imagine having to cross the International Date Line on the regular!