I don’t understand the logic of this question (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

My brother was doing one of those brain quest things and one question was how many timezones are there. The answer was 24 How? I think they forgot a few because I don’t see how you could get 24.

 

[magali]

i googled because i have no idea but i found an article that kinda explains why 24 is the "correct" answer even tho it isnt

" A day is composed of 24 hours. Thus, it might seem that dividing the earth into 24 time zones would be as simple as dividing 360° by 24 to determine that the time should change by an hour with every 15° of longitude. "
so apparently they think it's 24 because of the hours in a day or i am reading wrong

 

[Belgizen]

I always thought it was 24 tho?

 

[magali]

I always thought it was 24 tho?

i believe it's around 40!

 

[Ahsoka]

i googled because i have no idea but i found an article that kinda explains why 24 is the "correct" answer even tho it isnt
" A day is composed of 24 hours. Thus, it might seem that dividing the earth into 24 time zones would be as simple as dividing 360° by 24 to determine that the time should change by an hour with every 15° of longitude. "
so apparently they think it's 24 because of the hours in a day or i am reading wrong

Then they should ask “what are the number of hours in a day” instead smh

 

[magali]

i forgot to add that the article was explaining why it's wrong, not why it's right just in case

 

[magali]

Then they should ask “what are the number of hours in a day” instead smh

true

 

[Ahsoka]

I always thought it was 24 tho?

There’s much more than that. For example, if you assume that every 15 degrees it changes by an hour that misses so many. for example, in my 15 degrees there’s currently at least 2 timezones: EST and EDT. You cant lump those into one because we’re an hour apart. Then there’s places where the timezone just doesn’t fit into the 15 degrees, like China having one timezone for the whole country. And what about those timezones that aren’t in the hour? For example, India has one timezone, which is UTC+5:30. And there’s probably more that I’m missing. The even 15 degrees an hour changes just doesn’t work in so so many cases, leading to more specific timezones. There’s just no way that 24 comes close to covering it all.

 

[magali]

what i dont understand is how hard it is for the creators of the brain test to just google it like maybe it was written by professionals or whatever but they can still be wrong and at least looking at another perspective can make you question and perfect your knowledge

 

[Ahsoka]

what i dont understand is how hard it is for the creators of the brain test to just google it like maybe it was written by professionals or whatever but they can still be wrong and at least looking at another perspective can make you question and perfect your knowledge

Yeah idk, that confused me. I haven’t seen other questions be wrong per se (though there was one that could have two answers and only had one). Oh and I suppose the what are the three states of matter question, which ig is just simplified because a lot of people aren’t familiar with the other states of matter. Tbh I don’t even remember how many there are. But generally I don’t see issues with questions being incorrect on other occasions.

 

[magali]

Yeah idk, that confused me. I haven’t seen other questions be wrong per se (though there was one that could have two answers and only had one). Oh and I suppose the what are the three states of matter question, which ig is just simplified because a lot of people aren’t familiar with the other states of matter. Tbh I don’t even remember how many there are. But generally I don’t see issues with questions being incorrect on other occasions.

i feel like asking what the 3 states of matter and the 24 time zone thing are kinda different, idk why tho
i think it's around 7 states of matter? so 3/4 states of matter compared to 7 isn't really that much difference compared to 24 over 40, the gap is bigger

 

[Belgizen]

i believe it's around 40!

how do you have that number?

 

[Belgizen]

There’s much more than that. For example, if you assume that every 15 degrees it changes by an hour that misses so many. for example, in my 15 degrees there’s currently at least 2 timezones: EST and EDT. You cant lump those into one because we’re an hour apart. Then there’s places where the timezone just doesn’t fit into the 15 degrees, like China having one timezone for the whole country. And what about those timezones that aren’t in the hour? For example, India has one timezone, which is UTC+5:30. And there’s probably more that I’m missing. The even 15 degrees an hour changes just doesn’t work in so so many cases, leading to more specific timezones. There’s just no way that 24 comes close to covering it all.

oh my jesus that's too difficult

I was just taught this:

 

[magali]

how do you have that number?

i googled it

 

[magali]

And what about those timezones that aren’t in the hour? For example, India has one timezone, which is UTC+5:30.

nepal's time zone is gmt+5:45 too 🤓

 

[Belgizen]

i googled it

ooofff ok

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Humanity's super power. Making simple things incredibly complicated.

 

[Ahsoka]

oh my jesus that's too difficult

I was just taught this:

I guess that can be done but it feels harder imo. It’s not 24 time zones, it’s 24 time zones plus variation depending on time of year plus adding in numbers here and there for variation from the timezone because the areas of that region don’t actually follow the time of the region they look to be in. It’s hard to follow imo, and if your time is UTC+5:30 and you assume 24 time zones then you really aren’t in any time zone at all because your time doesn’t exist.

 

[Belgizen]

I guess that can be done but it feels harder imo. It’s not 24 time zones, it’s 24 time zones plus variation depending on time of year plus adding in numbers here and there for variation from the timezone because the areas of that region don’t actually follow the time of the region they look to be in. It’s hard to follow imo, and if your time is UTC+5:30 and you assume 24 time zones then you really aren’t in any time zone at all because your time doesn’t exist.

I have a head ache lmaooo

 

[dark_tranquility]

I am just gonna go with what others are doing