why is the other side of the world (im in the US) a day ahead? y arent they a day behind? when di this begin?
480187
Because the world has developed a system of time and divided the day into 24 hours we as a world need 24 time zones to seperate the time zones thus 1 zone needs to be first and another last with the other 22 falling inbetween.  We just happen to be in the opposite end of the zone chart maybe if we invented it we could have been first but then what fun would new years be if we couldn't get up at 3am and watch the fireworks from Australia.  If we were first we would be too drunk to see any othe rcelebrations.
139666
I send mine and the time stamp is PST (Pacific Standard Time). My friend, 50 miles west of me and actually living ON the Pacifc coastline has an EST (Eastern Standard Time) stamp on his. We are smack in the middle of the Pacific Time zone. And the actual times of day don't make sense either. Go figure, huh?
291812
It's 8:47 pm US - EST.\n\nThis site shows times & dates from around the world..\n\nhttp://timeanddate.com/
1047423
In the US it is 11:00AM est.
1028670
Exactly. Your an optimist. Keep it up! Its optimism that makes the earth rotate or else it would have stopped.\n\nForget the past , think of the future. We always take steps forward , never backward. So why do we think of the past. Yesterday is History. Right said. Tommorrow is a mystery, even better. \n\nLive today to the fullest.
1009930
Of course people are here all the time... people from all over the world are on here, therefore different people are on at completely different times, due to time zones.
10279
You're in the eastern time zone. If you want to see for yourself go here:\n\nhttp://www.time.gov/index.html
949978
Ok... it's Monday 9:pm eastern in the USA right now.  That makes it Tuesday morning 8:AM in Siberia, which has nothing to do with your concert.\n\nPerhaps you should look at your tickets?
1023272
Really, I'd think the opposite, because the days are becoming longer, if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, because the sun is staying "up" longer than when it is winter.  I also heard, a few years ago, and I don't remember if this is true or the opposite way around, but that the days were becoming longer becasue of the speed that we are turning in.  It said that like in10000 years the day will be hours longer than now.
460073
New agers and doom-sayers have lacthed on to this year as "the end of the world" because it is the roll-over year of the Mayan long-count calender.  Think about how your car's odometer works.  Yoiu hit 100,000 miles and it rolls over to zero.  Why did it roll over to zero?  Did the old car end, and anew car begin?  No.  All that happened is that you ran out of  numbers to count how many miles your car has driven, and thus you rolled-over and had to start counting with zero again.\n\nThis is exactly what happens to the Mayan calender in 2012, it runs out of numbers to count the days and must start over.  As far as some of the nuttier theories out there the Mayan's had no concept of a "black hole," allignments of the visible planets happen on almost 200 year cycles, Nostrdamus never gave any dates for his rantings, and the aliens don't have a magic clock.  The Mayans were facinated by the planet Venus on the othe hand and the cycles of Venus are partially what they based several of their calenders off of.
768098
5 hours behind... \n\nThe co-ordinates belong to Toronto, Canada which is EST (Eastern Standard Time) & it is west of Greenwich
1066168
they understand the concept of time the same way we do, they just have diffrent time zones so they have their times diffrent then us. What i mean by that is that while its 9 here it might be 4 there (not sure if thats the exact diffrence) because of the way the earth revolves around the sun.
814836
The person above was correct since there are different time zones for different places in the USA.\n\nHere is a site with a map with the current times and the zones:\n\nhttp://www.worldtimezone.com/
1164263
it will start at 16 GMT but i am do not sure
24749
Probably because the server is located on the West coast...this is normally why there is a difference. The service itself doesn't really have anything that would be time specific enough to call for them to allow users to set their own time zone...
1056696
Expected occurrence.\n\nAnyway it's not happening today. Today's date is 06/06/2006.\n\nYou're too late for 06/06/06. \nWho knows what the Apocalypse was like then, especially when a) all the apocalyptic rubbish hadn't been written yet, and b) the years weren't going to have numbers assigned to them for a couple of hundred years.  (That is the current calendar system, the Hebrew and Chinese calendars were doing just fine, thank you very much.)
503890
2:40 am here, how can it be 1:04 where you are? shouldnt it be 1:40 pm?