https://www.micah.soy/tags/time/ Recent content in Time on Micah Henning Hugo en-us Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.micah.soy/posts/strange-time-zones-around-the-world/ Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.micah.soy/posts/strange-time-zones-around-the-world/ On my job, I work with people around the world. Many of these people live in India. India time, or IST, differs from much of the rest of the world in that it is off by thirty minutes, instead of an hour. In 1884, the Greenwich Meridian was internationally recognized as zero degrees longitude at the International Meridian Conference, based on solar observations in Greenwich, England by Nevil Maskelyne. Over the next forty years, the world would supplant their local mean times with approximate differences rounded to hours or half hours “ahead of” or “behind” Greenwich Mean Time.