Why is it that days are longer in UK, Australia in comparison with the Indian subcontinent?
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It's all to do with the angle of the earth.  It doesn't sit in an upright position, rather it reclines at and angle of 23 degrees.  It also rotates around the sun once a year which means that at times parts of the earth are pointing towards the sun and other parts are pointing away.\n\nThe further north or south you go the more pronounced the difference in daylight hours is.  For example, if you venture into the Arctic Circle (within 23 degrees of the pole) you can have 24 hour daylight during the summer months and 24 hours darkness during the winter months.\n\nBecause India is closer to the equator the difference in sunrise and sunset times is less variable than it is in Australia or the UK.  In the UK for example at this time of year it's daylight up until about 10PM but during the winter months it's dark by 4PM.
320604
Time difference is 24 hours? That would be on the date line.\n\nThe date line runs from the north pole down through the Pacific ocean and to the south pole... the only land under this line is Antarctica and the Arctic Ice sheet.\n\nIf you were to stand on the eastern side of the date line and look to the east then you will actually be seeing yesterday, if you were to step over it and look west then you will be seeing tomorrow.\n\nEDIT: People who think there is not one... please think before answering a question.\nConsider that the date line exists at +12 and -12 hours GMT at the same time... the difference between +12 and -12 is a total of 24 hours.\n\nQuote from Wikipedia:\n"If one crosses the date line at precisely midnight, going westward, one skips an entire day; while going eastward, one repeats the entire day."
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One would think from looking at a map that Austira would, being further east but in fact, both France and Austria are GMT+1 with no daylight savings on Dec 31 so they are in the same time zone and celebrate it at the same time.\n\n(Checked using Brest, France - one of the most western cities against Wien/Vienna, Austria)
613572
What an odd question!\nWhen the subcontinent of India slammed into the Eurasian land mass, millions of years ago, forming the Himalayas, the Indian subcontinent was longer than it is wide.\nOddly, before Pakistan was split off in 1947, India was wider than it is long.  If you add Pakisan and Bangledesh (originally East Pakistan) you can see what I mean.
901372
In Australia only some states still have daylight savings. Queensland got rid of it for a number of reasons. One being that the farmers complained it was upsetting the cows timetable.
429931
The answer is all geography, baby. Most countries instilled DST in order to give the illusion of an extra hour of daylight for farmers. Also taken into consideration is the normal business hours in a country's work day. Since each country has a different professional culture, each country has different DST standards to meet the needs of the average worker. A handful of countries go back in order to give people more light earlier in the morning and another handful of nations don't even have a DST standard. Just kidding, I made all this up. It's most likely true though so I'll let you stroke my hair if you want. (Just for you) Look! A link!!! >>>>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
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Because the earth is tilted on its axis, we have seasons.  The seasons vary the length of daylight depending on the season.  When it is summer, and the days are long, in the northern hemisphere, it is winter in the southern hemisphere and the days are short.\n\nIf you think about this, you will realize that it can't be true of the equator.  Where the two hemispheres meet, the days don't vary by season.  The farther you are from the equator, the greater the length of the day (or night) -- so at the poles the sun deosn't set in mid-summer or rise in mid-winter.
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Because you live in the Southern Hemisphere...In the Northern Hemisphere it goes the other way. Look up the term 'Coriolis effect' for more info.
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because it relies to the events which can't be measured metrically anyway. Weeks follow the approximate lunar circle, there's 365 days in a year etc.\n\nalso, imagine we would divide a day into 100 hours. 1 hour would last only 14 minutes, which would be way too few and confusing. \nIf we divided a day into 10 hours, an hour would last 2 hours and 64 minutes. this would probably be too long, and we wouldn't have enough hours to properly determine a time of day...\n\nAn hour was determined as 1/4 of the time when the shadow of a pole travels a 60 degree angle or something... i THINK. I might be wrong on this, high school phisics is a LONG time ago. \nAnyway, it was old Sumerians or Babilonians who determined it like that and ever since it wasn't changed. We're too used to these units now, we can't just change them without causing a massive MESS :D
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Latitude does not affect time, it just affects daylight length. Longitude affects time\nNow ... the earth is a circle, (360 degrees) it turns once a day, 360 degrees in 24 hours, 15 degrees an hour. The 0 meridian is at Greenwich in London. so 10 degrees east is 40 minutes in front of Greenwich, and 70 degrees west is 280 minutes behind Greenwich. Using this we can say that 70 degrees west is 320 minutes behind 10 degrees east that is 5hrs and 20 minutes take that away from the flight time and you have 4 hours and 40 minutes, this means it will be 06.40 a.m. , local time, when you land
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I think I am just speculating but I think you would have almost everyday off since each country has different days of significance.  Like in India there is some holiday going on everyday.
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Thats because changing the time has nothing to do with the seasons, its all to do with day length. It was actually abolished in the UK in the late 70's to see what would happen and it proved too dangerous...kids were going to school in the morning in total darkness during the winter.\nThey have it all over the world, its the same in the US, they just call it daylight saving time
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The question being;\nWhat is the difference between the English spoken in North America and the rest of the world?\nThe answer is not as simple, the English spoken in the States differs within those states, then add-on Canada and you get more differences. \nThe English spoken in India is significantly different from that spoken in Australia. The people of Australia have slight variations and can tell when they are speaking to someone from New Zealand!\nThe United Kingdom has it's variations too, both in dialect and word usage.
609762
INDIA only crosses two time zones, (+5 and +6 hours ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time, and only a small portion of the country would be in +6, so they split the difference. and observe +5-1/2 hours from GMT.
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In the time it takes the Earth to make one turn on its axis relative to the stars, it also moves relative to the Sun. So a day later, the Sun is not in the same spot relative to the stars and the Earth has to rotate for about another 4 minutes to put the Sun back in the same apparent position.  \n\nThe actual length of a Solar days varies during the year, because the Earth's orbit is elliptical, and the orbital speed varies slightly. If you rely on a sundial to tell time, it will run fast and slow by about 15 minutes in the course of a year. Our 24-hour standard day is the average of the variations, and so is called a Mean Solar Day.\n\nThe sidereal day, on the other hand, is precise to a minute fraction of a second - the Earth does wobble a little and is very gradually slowing down besides, so it's not perfectly repeatable.
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Theoretical there should be 24 as there is 24 hours in a day and each time zone is 1 hour long. But there are countries that have their time zones set at half hourly intervals, such as India and Australia to name two. In actual fact there is 27 time zones in the world counting these half hourly ones.
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Because of the location that you live in. If you lived in Britain the times would be from 9.00am to 3.00 pm