Strangest Time Zones of the World
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- A video looking at some of the world's strangest time zones. Including: China, Kiribati, Nepal, Australia and more.
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When I create a country, I'll set the time zone to GMT-72. That way, if a country tries to attack us, we know everything they'll do three days before they do it.
No, say we are declared war on on a Friday. For us, it's Tuesday, which means that we have three days advance notice before Friday, when they declare war. If it were Kiribati, we'd have 5 days advance notice. I get what you're saying, and that may have been the case a century ago, but now information can travel at lightning speed; the word would reach us almost instantaneously, while the war wouldn't begin for us until Friday.
Daniel L. Unless the invader says fuck you and attacks anyways, completely disrespecting your time zone.
Sparky_ Jolt Yeah but then there's a massive problem for them: they'll be jumping back in time. It's like Y2k, but for real. All those spreadsheets ruined, all those jet-lagged soldiers, their country is ruined!
Whoa, for a second I thought that it'd actually work. Ehhhhh
Daniel L. Except changing the time arbitrarily doesn't do shit to the actual time. If they decide to go to war with you on Friday, your Tuesday- they'll still invade on Tuesday your time, Friday theirs. Time is dictated by the sun and the moon. It's just humans that arbitrarily think they can control time.
Me before watching this: I wonder why time zones are weird
Me after watching: I wonder why time zones are weird
Yeahh 😂😂👌
That's complicated
politics
@@lelouchlamperouge8093 What aspects of India?
Mainly the half and quarter hour differences, why does india do that? Why does Nepal do that? Why does that one small city of like 200 do that?
nepal
the only country with a +15 min time zone
the only country with a non rectangular flag
absolute mad lads
Next they’re going to be the first country with a special character in its name
@@kingchicken8232 côte d'ivoire: am i a joke to you?
switzerland technically has a square flag though
also, a really cool national anthem.
@@asph0le531 and monaco
Imagine flying from Kiribati to Hawaii on New Years? You'd get to celebrate twice!!! :D
Just remember, #sayKIRIBAS
Or Christmas.
Christmas
Or on your birthday
@Proud Bangladeshi গর্বিত বাংলাদেশী interesting. Thank you for that
You can add North Korea to the list of "Countries that have their time set on the half hour" with the introduction of Pyongyang Standard Time last year.
+Willem Cohen TH-cam videos cannot be edited.
WonderWhy Yes, but they can be annotated.
+WonderWhy And also corrected and reuploaded
+Jason T Scott-West Would you throw away 850 000 views and 10 000 likes for a minor edit?
Officialhelpkenet at least a follow up video
As a Samoan I can say you were spot on with the time changes. In 2011, most Samoans celebrated the switch by hosting sci-fi parties and the biggest one was called "Time warp" which was hosted by Bluesky a local Telecom company.
Teacher: The test isn't that complicated
The test:
Good one.
Thanks.
@@crunkdwscrew ?
what
You forgot to write “time zones”
It's 3PM everywhere. simple!
Australia : But ... It's nighttime
UK : Deal with it
we know
Deal with it I'm having some issues. (Lost my tea)
Indeed, should just let time be time. So what if i start at work at 0300 or 0900. And this summertime nonsense. Adjust workhours instead of time. World is quite global now, and its not rare to get into a confusion about time and timezones. If i say lets meet up at 3pm, a person should be able to get that info. Without having to ask where i am, what my timezone is. Then convert into his time. Not rare to get mixups with my internet friends from across the globe.
Keiji John Libadisos zっsws22w
Keiji John Libadisos 😋😋😝😅
Why are people bitching about his accent? English isn't my first language and I understand him perfectly, I don't see the problem.
I know right, he spoke very clearly in my opinion.
Eduardo Mañón Yeah, besides there are captions to use too.
Rigved Goyal Exactly bro
Eduardo Mañón He has a fantastic scottish accent, I have absolutely no problem with it. Wtf is wrong with people.
Starbattle64 He's Scottish?
my head hurts
me too
Mine, too!
Mine too
mine too, in a matter of fact,
how lucky i am living near to the equator :D
UK: Raining on a Monday Morning, how bloody great
USA: It's so sunny today, I'm going to Disneyland
Australia: Goodnight folks!
New Zealand: ZZZZZZZZZ
rain is cool
I finally got around to looking at the question that I posed at the end of the video - do we even need time zones? Link here: th-cam.com/video/INAqKthUPl4/w-d-xo.html
Was a good video.
@@WAMTAT agreed.
Russia: "Imma DST"
World: "Ok"
*few months later*
World: "OK Russia, time to go back to regular time"
Russia: "Nah I don't really feel like it"
World: "Russia that's not how it works"
Russia: "Fuck off"
lol
+Chris Beck
World: "Russia, you're drunk, go home"
Russia: "Drunk is home. Clock is wrong. Is Russian clock, is always wrong."
In Soviet Russia times tells you!
+oilersridersbluejays lololol
regular show reference?
came here _only_ to hear if kiribati was pronounced correctly; narrator does not disappoint
I knew nothing about the pronunciation of Kiribati until I watched this (apparently unlike you) so it appears I may have learnt something else as well. Thank you.
It's "Kiriba*s*," and that's just how the "ti" is pronounced in the Kiribatese language because there is no "s" in their language's alphabet. It isn't all that intuitive to English speakers, but who cares, they don't need to accommodate us.
Also, accents. It's just the way they sound, big deal. We probably sound like morons to people from foreign nations. Calm down, guy.
DarkEye22 It's ironic that someone would use a load of verbal diarrhoea like this to complain about the way something is spelt.
You can neither spell nor punctuate. Until you learn to do both, I suggest you refrain from criticising anyone else's spelling.
Dennis Fluttershy They don't have to throw away centuries of culture just to accommodate our language. There are places in the world with "weird" pronunciation that are older than English itself; why should they care about how lazy people on the Internet who can't be bothered to learn the proper pronunciation?
Besides, there are plenty of places in the UK that have weird pronunciation; should we change them? Should we change all the names in Wales? Ireland? Should we rename Greenwich to Grenich? Reading to Redding? Worcestershire to Woostursher? Leicester? Marylebone? Holborn?
Maybe I sound a little peeved. But culture is so important, and we're already losing a ton of it every day…
I pronounce it Kitty's Back because that's how I say it in my culture of laziness. It's spelled that way just to mess up kids in spelling bees and on Jeopardy.
There have been several changes since this video was made.
Venezuela switched from -4.30 to -4.00 in 2016
North Korea used +8.30 from 2015-2018 and had since returned to +9.00
Russia switched back to standard time permanently in 2014 and also increased its number of time zones back to 11
Excellent stuff. I always found the Australian time zones pretty strange. To complicate matters further, I think that some parts of Northern NSW follow Queensland time when Daylight Saving applies in NSW (but not in Queensland).
Accent or no, can we all just take a moment to appreciate that he pronounces "Kiribati" correctly (sounds like "Kiribas")
John Dee
This is the shit I don’t get. If it’s pronounced “Kiribas,” why is t spelled “Kiribati?” That’s the most stupidest shit ever. That’s like instead of America being pronounced Ah-meh-ri-kah, it’s pronounced Ey-ma-ra-ya-ri-ka-me
Hyumanggis Fatsou I don’t know Kiribati phonetics, but I remember the pronunciation by thinking of it as similar to - not the same as - “ti” in English words like “aviation.”
Brooke King
It’s the same with Chuukese. I was speaking with my Chuukese friend last year, she said that “thank you” was “Kirisou.” The spelling is “Kinisou” in Chuukese, but the pronunciation is like “Kirisou.” Makes nonsense at all like wtf.
Well the words queue and comfortable are way more stupid
The Pacific island of Kiritimati... by their pronunciation (and who's to say they're wrong?) is Christmas Island. See it differently, it only takes a minor readjustment of your understanding that we are not all the same.
Go look at all the (to us) weird pronunciations of letters and letter groupings just in the European languages - everything from Finnish to Albanian to Catalan to Hungarian, where they all have their own rules of how it is spelled and spoken. Are they all stupid too?
And I thought time zones were confusing before, holy shit.
Me too. I didn't know there were quarter, half hour, 3 quarters time zones. That's weird, ain't it?
I wanna die
Tse Penny 🗡
They are tank, tame, team zones...
I absolutely love this video. Thanks! I also love the Fable-esque background music.
I love your channel!!! I really like the way you present the material and the great map work you do!!! As well as being entertaining, you learn something too! Great channel buddy!! Keep up the great work that you do!
IT ROCKS!!
What I learned in this video:
Timezones are just choices made for trading and aren't that complicated. It's like grammer: 90% follows the rule, but the deviant 10% makes it look like an untangleable mess.
The real evil is daylight savings time. (seriously, why does it still exist? It should have been abolished 30 years ago)
There are more hours of daylight during the summer than the winter, but without DST quite a bit of that extra daylight would be early in the morning when most people would be in bed! Basically, Daylight SAVING Time 'saves' some of that daylight for the evening when most people are still going to be awake to make use of it! Basically it's designed to give most people as much daylight as possible in their waking hours - though whether there's necessarily any advantage to that is disputed
Inkyminkyzizwoz yeah, I know, but how is this useful in the globalised age of the light bulb and the computer? It's more of a nuisance than an aid.
PrimaPunchy Well, the idea was that if people get more daylight during their waking hours they won't use as much artificial lighting and therefore it'll save on electricity!
th-cam.com/video/84aWtseb2-4/w-d-xo.html
Try this CGP grey video. It has a great amount of arguments against daylight saving time
Idk I live in Texas and I have lived in Arizona, which does not follow daylight savings time.
It wasn't much different not having daylight savings time tbh
"tamezone"
the accent was strong with this one
*deat lien*
UNNECESSARY CAPS "lane islands" now i understand why americans make so much fun of british people
I would like to know the presenter's area from which his Scottish accent originates, as I've heard similar versions where it sounds like the other speakers are talking through mouthfuls of saliva.
Zenith Rendezvous buet eye'm British
8:16. damn the savage level is off the charts
+Rapid Gameplay Yes, LOL the commonwealth realm in full force!
Your kinda slow
I’ve learnt more from this brilliant dude than I have from GCSE Geography. Keep it up bro, your videos are always fascinating and fun to watch!!
It's 3 in the morning here. What the hell am I doing watching a video on time zones?
Because internet
Same
Your proving to yourself that your not staying up late by finding countries where it's not late.
+R.J. Arsenault You had insomnia and needed to get properly zoned out in order to fall asleep.
hahaha
before the second world war, the Netherlands had a time zone of +0:20
What ???
Serieus? Dat wist ik niet, you learn something new everyday :)
rubens dutch mario games lol wtf Netherlands why?
That was a legit reason for an invasion
rubens dutch mario games WHY THE NETHERLANDS
Man! This was COMPLICATED! Great video though.👍🏾👍🏾 I liked the little speech bubble captions 😂
This is an awesome video! I had no idea it was so complicated around world. Thanks for making. 😊
Props for pronouncing Kiribati the right way.
But I missed something about time zones at the poles.
it is "keer-i-bas"? i always said "keer-i-bah-te"
umidontno082230
nope, in Gilbertese (their official language) "ti" is pronounced "s", so "keer-i-bas" indeed :)
***** huh, i wonder how many other country names i am pronouncing wrong...
Surely one "day" at the poles is just the length of the year?
Kevin Casey
I don't know, that may be how it works, but that's why I would've liked to hear something about that.
I'm gonna go play KSP now
+Squiddy I heard the music and immediately thought... "Am I in space?"
XD
+Squiddy "Yes, I made it to orbit! ...wait..." XD
I thought I got my duna rocket to space. But it dix not.. sniff
+Stan110 Literally just got finished looking for KSP.exe in task manager.
Lol I'm from Kiribati and didn't realise how complicated time zones were til watching this video lmao
The single timezone at 45 minutes past the hour in Australia is in the locality of Eucla, Western Australia. The reason for the unique timezone has to do with the telegraph station that used to be there. The distance between Perth and Adelaide was too far for a telegraph signal to carry so they built a telegraph station half way between the two. 1 operator would receive the transmission then pass it to the other operator who would re transmit it to the destination. As they were working in between the two cities it didn't make sense to adopt any one timezone so they halved the 90 minute difference and created the UTC +8:45 timezone.
There is no 8:45 timestamp. The length of video is 8:39
Not the single. 5:45 in Nepalm8:45 Eucla 12 r5 chatham
The video is now slightly outdated since Venezuela switched back to -4:00 UTC on May 1st.
This makes me glad to be living in a country with one time zone and nothing too complex in any nearby countries either.
is it Britain
You just earned a sub man this video was very well put together and absolutely blew my mind
Because of the background music, I just keep imagining these timezones designed by Kerbals.
That would indeed be very kerbal lol
First video I've clicked to on my recommended list and I don't regret it. Really shows the effort you put into this video :)
MERTZY WHAT TF R U DOING HERE BROTGER
Fr
The sun was at its highest point at 12 noon. This is known as HIGH NOON.
Is that an overwatch reference?
A warnjg?
If so
I gotta find cover
chichinitz XD
Only if you chose your time zones so that it would do it exactly at 12 in the watch...
I thought high noon was at 4:20 pm... I might be wrong tho
it's high noon somewhere in the world
I was born aised raised in Eastern Tennessee (central time), north of Chattanooga, TN (eastern time). It took us 1 hour to drive to Chattanooga - leave at 2pm and arrive at 4pm (setting your clock ahead, obviously). Driving home, leaving at 5pm and one hour later pulling into our driveway at (you guessed it) 5pm. 2 hours to get there, 0 to get home.
8:15 Australia "its bedtime" England :"good morning" Australia ...
Xinjiang, China: **stares at the sunrise at 10 AM**
This video taught me that I've been mispronouncing Kiribati for years.
Is it something that comes up a lot in everyday conversation?
Bassam zubedi I guess it's a lot of work finding a topic, doing internet research, writing the script, recording it, finding images, producing the video and uploading it! ;)
You can either say ki ri ba tee
Or ki ri bas
@@connorrcompton NO YOU CANT!!! IT'S ONLY PRONOUNCED KI RI BAS!
What do you mean? One time zone is the best solution. It would greatly simplify online schedules for live streams and planning meetings with people on the other side of the world would be so much easier. What could possibly be a downside to this?
"Morning", "Noon", "Evening" and "Night" would just have different times in different parts of the world and people would universaly understand that "Noon" is that certain hour in this part of the world if you're just planning things localy.
It all works, time zones are idiologcal and will be gone with more and more advancements in communication and the increased simplicity and speed of travel. 12 does not have to be Noon, it's dumb to restrict yourself to that thinking.
Why would you not got rid of them?
Lets all use Beijing time then XDDD
timothy yap I rly dun mind which one. As long as we all manage to agree on one.
TBH you can still do that with the time we have now. Just set your watch (or a watch) at zulu time (GMT). NATO does this to a large extent already when coordinating between different countries.
Taeerom
That's a start, now web streamers need to start anouncing their schedule with that too xD
Maybe some already are, but I've never seen it.
***** The hours are just numbers. You can get used to them no matter what they are.
And the weekdays only really affect what days you work and which you don't.
The days will switch in the middle of the day in some places in the world, that will prbly take some getting used to. But you'd have a universal understanding for the term "5pm on Friday". So when there's an online event at that time, everyone will easily schedule into it.
This will become increasingly important as we globalize more and more. Especially in the not too distance future when it will be possible to travel anywhere in the world within an hour. Then having only 1 global time zone will be even more important.
At the moment the current time zone system does work. You just constantly need to do the math in your head, and keep multiple clocks on your cell phone.
We might just come up with an entirely new ingenious time system that will be more comprehensible on a global scale.
Them weekdays do cause some problems without time zones actually xD
An absolutltely fascinating, informative and perfectly executed video. Many thanks.
I actually really like your accent, it’s really nice sounding to me. Also, A+ on pronouncing Kiribati correctly.
Niue parents: Go to bed at 7:00 AM kids.
Lol
Soham Dutta lol
Soham Dutta 😲 that is so funny 😂
Niue is a very weird country, they have Pikachu and Mickey Mouse coins, and they are part of New Zealand but independent at the same time. They are not in UN but they can enter when they decide it.
@@tekmogm5979 Had you been there?
You deserve more than 24k subscribers.
Now he has a "little" more
Really fascinating video. I live in Australia and didn't even know many of those facts.
This was fantastically explained. Thank you.
the downside to having a Nepali friend: having to do mental maths all the time to work out what time it is for them.
+Oh!sama Mathematics is incredibly good for strengthening your brain, and is not so hard when you face it with a POSITIVE ATTITUDE!
Your smart phone knows the time zones.
i've calculated that you've uploaded a video about every 49 days since your first video was uploaded. that means i'll be expecting a video (hopefully on the western sahara) on june 1!
Nice! :)
Errrrr......... No
This is a very interesting video, kudos for making this
this was a great video, thankyou
Everything about your videos are perfect. Please never stop making them :D
Congratulations for this awesome video! I imagine how hard you must have researched and how hard it must have been to understand all this!
I definitely subscribed! 👍
I enjoy the narrator's voice! Thank you for all the work for this video!
I enjoyed this! I especially liked the part about the Diomede Islands!
Old Canadian visual joke:
A wild-eyed, shaggy-haired eligious zealot walks down the street, ringing a hand bell, wearing a "sandwich board" sign reading:
THE WORLD SHALL END AT
MIDNIGHT
(12:30 in Newfoundland)
AAAAA NEWFOUNDLANDERS ARE DEAD
AAAAAAAAA
I feel kinda sorry for WonderWhy since many people are making fun of his accent :(
He's from Scotland.
He's from Scotland.
I know ^^
He's from Scotland.
Luu Msp
me too i feel real sorry im from usa hes sounds just find to me.
Very interesting. Thank you very much.
This is really helpful!!
Its good to see you back again
Really good vids. CGPGrey-like vids are awesome!
You sounds like kmac2021. Interesting! *Subscribed
Thanks for including subtitles in this video. I really could have not understand much without it, your accent is veeery particular.
Love your vids. Please try to post them more often
KSP music in background lol
You earned a subscriber by exploding my mind here.
Thank for video
At 1:14, if you look in the top left, it says: "Wonder why it's not abbreviated CUT? Blame the French." Who else noticed it?
Me...
I noticed this complete bullshit, since in French it is said "temps universel coordonné"...
+Maxence1402a the British way is to blame the French for everything.
Needlessly saying this, but LOL I noticed. The funniest guys on TH-cam (coincidentally the people who I have subscribed to) hide something in their educational vids
UTC is compromise between English and French since both parties cannot agree whether to use English CUT or French TUC
Kiribas gaining independence from the UK and expanded eastward through the Line Islands? Wow!
this is the answer of my big question, thank you!
In North Dakota, in the USA, a timezone line used to go right through the twin cities of Bismarck and Mandan. They had to move it because at 2AM in Bismarck, when all the bars closed, there would be a mad rush to Mandan by all the bar patrons to get another hour of drinking in. It caused so many accidents.
Since the creation of this video, North Korea has adopted the time zone +8:30.
As if North Korea made any sense anyway.
+Napalm I was thinking the same thing.
+Napalm Yeah. The funny thing is, now that South Korea and North Korea have different time zones, North Korean delegates always arrive 30 minutes later than the South Koreans. Both sides hate each other so they just keep using their own time zones.
2015CricketWorldCup Can you speak English? You speak a dialect called "unfunny 2 year old" that I am unable to understand.
+Napalm
It would've been classier if you just didn't respond mate.
+Napalm North Korea wanted to go back to their old time zone before the invasion of Japan in 1910.
I love this video, really thank you, you're great
Props to you for using the correct form of you're/your!
(seriously, you won't believe how many people fuck that up. :3)
Very informative.
I subscribed to you!
Loving this channel.
Nepal is savage
The time zone, the flag, what else do you want? 😝
you are wrong
but
I don't fight with you wrong.
I am a Nepalese
Dipesh Khadka Because of these facts, it makes Nepal awesome! Why is he wrong? No one said Nepal is bad! It has the coolest flag and you can design it only by following instructions in geometry.
I loved my time spent in Nepal no matter what time the clock said it was.
Απόστολος Τουλούπας hes a weirdo who doesnt know english. he doesnt understand
These videos are sp helpful and so well written. But we all know it's the accent that really sells it. :P
This channel's two videos on time zones are the only sane and factual videos I have found on this topic thus far.
Ok my house's time zone is +10:01
unique
ApplezFall 21:67
+chilloutboy Stole my idea
chilloutboy mine is UTC-00:06
mine is UTC +8:09:30
BEAT DAT
+00:000001
Australia: But it's night time!
Europe: DEAL WITH IT!
Wow I live in Australia and as such am so used to the adjusting time zones and certain states and territories using daylight saving while others don't, that I never considered how weird it must be to international visitors.
Very interesting!
Why do people care so much about his accent? It's really easy to understand.
He has an adorable accent. That's why. :D
My head hurt legit
Your accent sounds really cool, do you mind if I ask what country you are from?
Wow. 3 different dates.
Can you do one on the western sahara? It confuses me so much.
Yes, this is actually one of the topics that's on my list.
WonderWhy brilliant :)
WonderWhy can you do it for your next video?
WonderWhy wait my brain is still in apnoea :D (english is not my mother lenguage :D)also did you notice that putting all the continents all together you will obtain the shape of a chiken? don't know how important it is, but it's cool :D, just thought you should know it :D.
mattianoob99
A chicken called Pangaea haha.
is the background music frost waltz from KSP?
Alex Colledge
ty, used in ksp too
i first thought KSP vas playing in the backgrund but then i discoverd it was the video
linus lindmark
same here
No, It's The Harry Potter Song
I thought that as well :). love that game
Thanks for sharing
Very interesting video!
I'm going to make a guess and say you're accent is Inverrness area?? :) I love Scottish accents.
Why don't the time zones in the U.S. just run along the borders of its states? (0:30)
Wouldn't this be a lot easier to handle?
Yes, but people are stupid.
Generally they do, with a few important exceptions. For example the state line between Illinois and Indiana separates Eastern time and Central time but in Gary, IN the time zone swings easterly to keep Gary in Central time so it stays with Chicago's time. This is important because Gary is a bedroom community to the Windy city and things like bus and rail schedules would get screwy if the time zone stayed at the state line. Other examples include western panhandle of Florida, Eastern Oregon (which is actually in Mountain time not pacific) and eastern Tennessee which is Eastern and not Central time.
Justin Poland Ah, that makes sense! So it's the same reason why we switch the clock forward and backwards in the night...to avoid problems with public transport! :)
it would actually cause some more oddities. for example, i live in the western part of michigan's upper peninsula, and ideally, i would live in the utc-6 time zone, but, due to an oddity, i live in utc-5. there are small parts of the upper peninsula that are in utc-6, but making the time zones run along state lines would just fuck up the upper peninsula's time zone even more. i think time zones should be set by longitude alone
Atlanta was changed to EST because of stupid state border. Now Sunrise and dusk are late.
Really great vid (once again)! You deserve way more subs than 24k! Btw: where do u come from (I ask because of your funny accent^^)
Sounds Australian to me...
Lock Ray He's from Scotland.
Gorjid19Venus hehe, my bad then
he's from scotland
Lock Ray
What the hell?
Gr8 explanation
Thanks for making a tame-zone video!
It might sound like "tame" to Americans, but guess what, you're not the only English speakers in the world. In proper English, he did pronounce it as "time", no a sound in there!
Do we really need Daylight's savings time anymore? Sure it was useful back then but now it's just a pain in the ass that we have to deal with twice a year... once when it starts and again when it ends
It's a pain in the ass about three hundred times a year, because there is no single rule for DST. Every region does it differently.
Simple. Have the nations closer to the equator not use DST and the nations further away from the equator use DST. 😉
Wow, I never knew that there could be 3 different days on the planet at the same time! I learned something new today.
From 5am-6:59am Eastern Standard Time (N. America between early November and early March), there are 3 different dates observed in the world. That always kinda fascinates me more than it should.