I was wondering if it was possible for the entire planet to observe the same day of the week simultaneously at any point of time during a day. I did some google searches and found out that the UTC offsets range over a 26 hour time period. If the time taken by earth to complete one rotation is 24 hours, why do we need to have 26 hour range instead of 24? I also saw that the GMT has 24 hour range of offsets. I am pretty confused by all of this.
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Sure we can call time whatever we want. Time zones are something we completely made up just to make our lives easier. We could all be on ANY time zone, it doesn’t need to be UTC. We could all be on Alaska time if we’d like to! The numbers don’t matter, they are all made up.
Why is it 26 hours instead of 24? Why, because its all made up. Time zones do not necessarily represent accurate science, they are meant to make it easy for the people who live there and people choose their own time zone., and in the case of the extra two– thats exactly what happened
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