International Time Zones (1 of 2: Why do we need them?)

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  • @siddharthsurya2791
    @siddharthsurya2791 Před 4 lety +18

    Every time I watch your videos, I feel like how less I know. Thanks for all the effort to teach fundamental concepts with such clarity.

  • @rey_pato
    @rey_pato Před 4 lety +208

    "We live on a round planet" - That's a bold claim, Mr Woo.

    • @MubashirullahD
      @MubashirullahD Před 4 lety +1

      It might have been a very very long time ago.

    • @eduardocl-9291
      @eduardocl-9291 Před 4 lety +7

      If we lived on a flat planet, then we wouldn’t have time zones.

    • @wiellnyan
      @wiellnyan Před 4 lety +1

      Eduardo Tyrone No, I don’t have any evidence but I just said no.

    • @beetlesss2560
      @beetlesss2560 Před 4 lety

      Is that a wrong statement?

    • @wiellnyan
      @wiellnyan Před 4 lety

      SYM Beetle idk

  • @pucakee8093
    @pucakee8093 Před 4 lety +167

    Was confused that Eddie said it was spring even though it’s November, then I remembered that he’s in Australia

    • @okaro6595
      @okaro6595 Před 4 lety +6

      November?

    • @jesse5609
      @jesse5609 Před 4 lety +1

      CZcams police are you high? He posted this more than a week ago so he could’ve posted this on november 29. Just because it’s december 12th when you see this it doesn’t mean that’s when he posted it.

    • @hirotohoashi
      @hirotohoashi Před 4 lety +1

      @@SoloLevellor he would've recorded the class in November

    • @cevs3123
      @cevs3123 Před 4 lety +12

      @@SoloLevellor look at the whiteboard in the video. It says 15th of November

    • @louaymourad6513
      @louaymourad6513 Před 3 lety

      Haha I am in Australia right know and it's freezing 🥶🥶we're I am 🥶🙃

  • @vukken99
    @vukken99 Před 4 lety +7

    Australia is very fortunate to have this young man teach their future generations...What a gift this young man brings!

  • @fireflyrobert
    @fireflyrobert Před 4 lety +10

    The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. It came about as a compromise between English and French speakers. Coordinated Universal Time in English would normally be abbreviated CUT. Temps Universel Coordonné in French would normally be abbreviated TUC.

  • @kittencobbler
    @kittencobbler Před 2 lety +5

    I truly wish you had been my teacher in school. You make everything so easy to understand!

  • @connorbradley4073
    @connorbradley4073 Před 4 lety +9

    If your students are more interested in this topic, there is an episode of NPR's Planet Money Podcast called "#918 - The Day of Two Noons" and the implementation of time zones in the US in the 1880s because of railroads. Gives some great background on this idea.
    Also, there are two professors from Johns Hopkins that are proposing Universal Time. Meaning, whenever it is 10:00pm here for me in the US, it's also 10:00pm for you in Australia. Biggest difference - the sun may rise here in the US at 10:00pm, I go to work at 11:00pm. Eat lunch at 3:00am. Come home at 7:00am. Sun sets at 9:00am. But for you in Australia, the sun may be rising at 5:00am. The idea is that we are all on the exact same time. We would just have to adjust to our "schedules" changing. Interesting read on the topic!

  • @dhavaltrivedi1574
    @dhavaltrivedi1574 Před 4 lety +8

    Knowledge is the Power ✨
    &
    You have that Power ✨

  • @TheThewebguy22
    @TheThewebguy22 Před 4 lety +21

    I should be going to sleep. It's midnight and here I am. Watching an educational vid about time zones. Why can't I stop watching?

    • @cartasegna75
      @cartasegna75 Před 4 lety +1

      He's our dreams teacher, don't lie yourself

    • @victort.4798
      @victort.4798 Před 4 lety

      It's almost 3 am here in UTC -5 (US East Coast). Still watching this video

    • @chiefeca8759
      @chiefeca8759 Před 3 lety

      And)8

  • @DrCrabnuts
    @DrCrabnuts Před 2 lety +1

    Wow, this guy is an excellent teacher. Lucky kids.

  • @RubiksSolver25
    @RubiksSolver25 Před 4 lety +3

    While UTC does stand for Coordinated Universal Time, it doesn’t do it directly, which yes is odd. UTC actually stands for the French translation. CERN is another example of this. They are acronyms for things that we know in English yet what actually stand for are in their French translations

  • @TheMilkyWay.Cheryl
    @TheMilkyWay.Cheryl Před 7 měsíci

    I enjoy his explanation & admire his teaching skills . I hoped I had an amazing teacher like him when I was in school . He is able to keep his students engage by interacting with him . And also a key factor for the students to focus on his lecture is interest . If a student doesn't have any interest , that student is definitely not going to remain focus .
    PS : That 8 and 3 quarter thing is caught me by surprise .
    I guess he must be a good teacher .

  • @yannick3489
    @yannick3489 Před 4 lety +3

    you seem to be a fantastic teacher!!!

  • @sajidtanwer9797
    @sajidtanwer9797 Před 4 lety +1

    Beautifully explained!

  • @MathsAdviceOnYourDevice
    @MathsAdviceOnYourDevice Před 4 lety +8

    Congrats Eddie for your last award. Well deserved! :-)

  • @MikeSheen1972
    @MikeSheen1972 Před 4 lety

    I hope you also taught them about ISO8601 and why that should be the only way to represent dates and times.

  • @RobinHagg
    @RobinHagg Před 4 lety +1

    Happy to hear why we would need this speed bump of ahhhhhh

  • @harelkariv1477
    @harelkariv1477 Před 4 lety +51

    Why is the second one not out yet I'm interested now

    • @BBC600
      @BBC600 Před 4 lety +3

      Probably takes a while to process these videos!

    • @_whacky
      @_whacky Před 4 lety +1

      Maybe another day or two

    • @OnlyDanLLC
      @OnlyDanLLC Před 4 lety +1

      czcams.com/video/VD9CdHuzOrU/video.html

  • @tjlocust
    @tjlocust Před 4 lety +9

    My stomach lurched when he said green witch😂 4:27

    • @Beny123
      @Beny123 Před 4 lety +2

      TJLocust I guess you are British - grenich?

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 2 lety

      How would you rightly know, not to pronounce the W or one of the E's?

  • @WilcoVerhoef
    @WilcoVerhoef Před 4 lety +1

    The C is at the end because France and England fought over Coordinated Universal Time and Temps Universel Coordonné

  • @briantravelman
    @briantravelman Před 2 lety +1

    The main reason they created time zones is because of the railway. If it was leaving from the east coast of the US, it would actually end up arriving on the west coast much later than the time stated.
    And that's actually why trains in Chins never show up on time, because the country has only one time zone.

  • @ScienceSeekho
    @ScienceSeekho Před 4 lety

    Yea Jessica

  • @yogimew
    @yogimew Před 4 lety +1

    ASAIK, Broken Hill NSW doesn't follow NSW time, like the rest of the state. They follow UTC+9.5 time since Adelaide is closer to them and they have a closer connection to Adelaide than to Sydney.

  • @williamdurocher207
    @williamdurocher207 Před 4 lety

    The time zones were proposed by Scottish-born Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming.

  • @dimaignatiev6370
    @dimaignatiev6370 Před 4 lety +28

    I thought this guy only taught Math....

    • @hastymemes2641
      @hastymemes2641 Před 3 lety +1

      This is math...

    • @bluthemeth
      @bluthemeth Před 3 lety +2

      @@hastymemes2641 Well yes, but actually no, but actually yes.

  • @liamtaylor3576
    @liamtaylor3576 Před 4 lety +1

    Upgraded to a projection screen I see 😂
    Btw I am BEYOND glad that you're not a flat earther

  • @manuelmines695
    @manuelmines695 Před 4 lety

    What subject do you teach?

  • @Eric_412
    @Eric_412 Před 4 lety +1

    i’ll 61 years old and love watching and doing Eddies maths, but,
    Eddie just showed the world is flat 🤔🤔
    i will now take off my Tin Foil hat and go back to, Bill Gates wants to micro chip us all and Eddie is his secret agent😳🤔..
    before everyone’s head explodes i’m only joking.😂🙀
    this is my favourite CZcams channel 👍😁

  • @Elgmairi
    @Elgmairi Před 4 lety +1

    I still can't understand why North and South Koreas have a 30-minute difference between each other when they are in the same zone and were in fact one country before.
    China has a unified time while the United states has 4.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 2 lety

      China has a unified time zone because of Mao Zedong's authority. There are rebel Uiygurs, who use Kashgar and Urumqi time zones that make more sense for their location, behind the back of Chinese government. Tibetans follow Beijing time, but events tend to happen at a shifted time from when you'd ordinarily expect them, for obvious reasons.
      The contiguous US has 4 time zones, because it spans across four theoretical time zones. Generally, the time zone borders occur at state lines, although there are exceptions like Nebraska, where they deliberately avoided state lines to aim for regions in the middle of the state to avoid population centers like Omaha. The US also has a time zone that is GMT-9 for Alaska, and GMT-10 for Hawaii, plus several others for the territories.

  • @Nylemrac_Haillehc
    @Nylemrac_Haillehc Před 4 lety

    Mr.Eddie can you explain about equilibrium ? Please sir consider this 🙏

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před rokem

      Equilibrium roughly speaking, means balance. It means for all the causes that there are to cause a system to change one way, there are also enough causes to change the system the opposite way, and on net, it isn't changing at all.
      As an example, a closed container with water, which is both evaporating and condensing. In the long run, it reaches a condition where all the water that evaporates, is equal to the mass of all the water that simultaneously condenses. The amount the water level changes, is no change at all.

  • @thebananabr0s
    @thebananabr0s Před 4 lety +15

    wow we meet again youtube algorithm peeps

  • @KneelBeforeBlue
    @KneelBeforeBlue Před 4 lety +1

    Position of the sun..

  • @coopero2090
    @coopero2090 Před 4 lety

    You did this on my birthday 🎂

  • @spectrickx1678
    @spectrickx1678 Před 2 lety

    This is better than the Animaniacs.

  • @saintholican8009
    @saintholican8009 Před 2 lety

    All of continental China using only Beijing time: (red sun in the sky intensifies)

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 2 lety

      Not necessarily. In the Xinjiang province, they unofficially use Kashgar time and Urumqi time that makes more sense locally, even if they officially use Beijing time.

  • @akoponen
    @akoponen Před 4 lety +1

    We should all have the local solar noon as the middle of our business day and all use the same clock time, based on the International Date Line. Get rid of Daylight Savings (stupid idea).

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před rokem

      Then you will end up with a continuous spectrum of infinite time zones, and you'll have to keep track of exactly where someone else's longitude is, in order to know when to arrange a meeting with them.

    • @akoponen
      @akoponen Před rokem

      @@carultch It is not as if we don't already have to adjust for folks having different times that they are available due to their business hours being different. And I hardly think 'exactly' will be required for most purposes.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před rokem

      ​@@akoponen I don't agree. I think time zones work much better when the clock is only adjusted once per hour's difference, rather than by 1 minute every 25 km you drive to the east or west. Then you'd have to keep track of exactly how far the difference is in longitude, when trying to schedule long distance meetings.
      Imagine trying to schedule a conference call between Boston, New York City, and Atlanta. Boston is 4 degrees east of the -75 degree meridian, NYC is 1 degree east of it, and Atlanta is 9 degrees west of it. As it currently stands, all of these places are in the same time zone, and it is reasonable for them to be in the same time zone, since their longitudes all round to the 75 degree west meridian. But Atlanta would be 50 minutes behind Boston, and NYC would be 10 minutes behind Boston, if we had to adapt to everyone's exact local time.

    • @akoponen
      @akoponen Před rokem

      @@carultch Since everyone would be using the SAME 'time zone' it would be easier. Just say a specific time. Yes, for some it may be in the morning and in the afternoon for others...presumably folks would mention if the specified time was outside of normal business hours at their location.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před rokem

      @@akoponen You are conflating the idea of everyone using UTC, with your original idea of a continuous spectrum of infinite time zones.

  • @DuckisLS
    @DuckisLS Před 4 lety +5

    Why am I watching this at 2:30am?

    • @nagasase
      @nagasase Před 4 lety +1

      same thing here

    • @sourabh5230
      @sourabh5230 Před 4 lety

      Because I am watching at 1:17 am

    • @zetch972
      @zetch972 Před 4 lety

      Creepy...almost the exact time I’m watching it too. 👀

    • @victort.4798
      @victort.4798 Před 4 lety

      2:50 am here

  • @gamer_16577
    @gamer_16577 Před 3 lety

    Hello! Jesus Loves us😊

  • @shafiamughal5178
    @shafiamughal5178 Před 4 lety

    Sir why is that I dont understand what he said? Is it because im just a child? or is it because I do not know what he's talking about?

    • @nafees021
      @nafees021 Před 4 lety +3

      He is explaining why different countries have different time zones. In order to understand it you first have to understand basic geography and solar system!

  • @samanthatollstam6302
    @samanthatollstam6302 Před 2 lety

    How old are the kids learning this? We learned this in grade school.

  • @koriroti
    @koriroti Před 4 lety

    Clicked on by mistake
    Watched anyway. Learnt something at least

  • @victort.4798
    @victort.4798 Před 4 lety +5

    Australian: "Lines of LonGitude"
    American: _cringes_

  • @Solo-leveling0
    @Solo-leveling0 Před 4 lety +1

    Please. i Want to know what you teach :math or something else

  • @cosmicphoenix8975
    @cosmicphoenix8975 Před 4 lety +19

    I’d like a flat earther to see this

  • @gubby740
    @gubby740 Před 4 lety

    Wintah and summah

  • @jacksbob8746
    @jacksbob8746 Před 4 lety +1

    Flat earthers are losing their minds now..

  • @geoffreylee5199
    @geoffreylee5199 Před 2 lety

    Invented by a Canuck!

  • @mithra2396
    @mithra2396 Před 4 lety

    I wash I was a student again....

  • @nesandu.9891
    @nesandu.9891 Před 4 lety

    for what class are u teaching this

  • @estherlogos9708
    @estherlogos9708 Před 4 lety

    Y is world map designed in that manner???

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 2 lety

      What aspect of it do you mean by designed? Because the layout of the landmasses is something nature determines, and the layout of international borders is more of an evolution than a design.
      Are you talking about the map projection? Or are you talking about the time zone layout? Or are you talking about why north is at the top, and why Europe and Africa are in the center?

  • @furzkram
    @furzkram Před 4 lety

    Best mnemo: UTC = Universal Time (Coordinated).
    See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Etymology

  • @lifeofphyraprun7601
    @lifeofphyraprun7601 Před 4 lety +10

    The thing that's really confusing me is that why is Eddie teaching Geography???

    • @davidpalmer9780
      @davidpalmer9780 Před 4 lety +1

      Working out what time it is around the world requires some calculation of numbers. If you watch the second video it will become clear to you.

  • @MrShane167
    @MrShane167 Před 4 lety

    We live on one of these
    Normal people
    Flat earthers o_O

  • @andrewtyler1161
    @andrewtyler1161 Před 2 lety

    Or you could just learn where the sun would be at noon wherever you live.
    International time zones are more complicated than time has to be. As he said, the whole midday thing breaks down completely at the poles. That's why militaries and international agencies use certain time zones no matter where they are on the Earth.
    Also, Greenwich is spoken as Grin-idge because of the local dialects that named it. It is an English thing not an English thing. 😄

    • @pusingfismat7099
      @pusingfismat7099 Před 2 lety

      Your comment remind me of Diomedes. Longitudewise, they should be UTC-11. Yet for political-territorial reason, one is UTC-9 and the other is UTC+12, 😖 21-hr gap between the two.

  • @alicecampbell1958
    @alicecampbell1958 Před 4 lety +1

    I'm here from online school lol

  • @grantorino2325
    @grantorino2325 Před 4 lety

    3:38
    That map is somewhat outdated. Kiribati and Samoa are now both WEST of the International Date Line.

    • @chelseaking1735
      @chelseaking1735 Před 4 lety +1

      Gran Torino places like Kiritimati mess up the intl date line

    • @chelseaking1735
      @chelseaking1735 Před 4 lety

      Gran Torino Because French Polynesia is a day behind Kiritimati which makes no snese

  • @foodandfingers6148
    @foodandfingers6148 Před 4 lety +3

    i am 42 why am i watching this ?

  • @puekai
    @puekai Před 4 lety +1

    Why we have time zones is not because the round earth is to blame, but because we need to discretise the earth into ‘bands’ that roughly corresponds to country borders so that people living in it can pretend they r living in exactly the the same longitude, just to facilitate time synchronisation, while in fact they are not.
    In ancient times, time zones were not necessary. All timekeeping was based on local time, ie position of the sun locally, because in ancient times ppl don’t frequently exchange with other ppl by more than 150km east/west (ie one hour, or 1/24 of a day) apart. Modernity necessitated time zone.

  • @31redorange08
    @31redorange08 Před 4 lety

    Spoiler alert: We don't need time zones.

  • @Rokker815
    @Rokker815 Před 4 lety +2

    Shouldn’t say 12 pm, should say 12 noon, as it is ambiguous! But interesting as always, thank you

    • @batuhansar532
      @batuhansar532 Před 4 lety

      Are you studying for TOEFL

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před 4 lety +5

      12 pm is not ambiguous. Noon is defined as pm, midnight is defined as am. Because 12:01 pm occurs afternoon and is therefore pm.

  • @princessleai
    @princessleai Před 4 lety

    wow what?

  • @gautamsrivastav8330
    @gautamsrivastav8330 Před 4 lety

    For flat earthers this is more rubbish than keeping up with the kardashians

  • @MubashirullahD
    @MubashirullahD Před 4 lety +1

    3 flat Earth commenters by comment 54

  • @Pumbear
    @Pumbear Před 4 lety +1

    WE DONT NEED TIME ZONES WE SHOULD JUST HAVE UNIVERSAL TIME

  • @DevinDTV
    @DevinDTV Před 4 lety +5

    "Why do we need them?" We don't. We could all use UTC and everything would be simpler. There's LITERALLY no reason to use time zones at all. They ONLY make things more difficult with no benefits whatsoever. They're just an unfortunate tradition that would be difficult and expensive to move away from.

  • @jayizzett
    @jayizzett Před 4 lety

    Earth is not a ball. Damn. Challenge what you are thought. Water doesn’t curve down. Ever.

    • @hhguerra59
      @hhguerra59 Před 2 lety +1

      If its not a ball than what is it...

    • @jayizzett
      @jayizzett Před 2 lety

      @@hhguerra59 it’s what we all observe Flat. Oceans and lakes do not curve

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před rokem

      @@jayizzett The water meniscus in a Spirit level: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?

    • @jayizzett
      @jayizzett Před rokem

      @@carultch bodies of water. Not rain drops

  • @paquarutea4366
    @paquarutea4366 Před 3 lety

    The direful powder ontogenetically tickle because racing coincidentally type circa a disagreeable brick. proud, fragile start

  • @ClowNSoundZ
    @ClowNSoundZ Před 4 lety +13

    Flat earther : I loved this guys channel until he started talking about how round the planet is. Just goes to show how delusional he is. He could probably add and subtract but he's way off with math for the Earth.
    Mathematicians : I wonder if I should brush up on some of this stuff. It's been so long since I calculated the time for my clocks.
    Everyone else: I wonder if a flat earther will make a comment about his round earth comments
    Me: I think I wasted enough time on this comment

  • @rockababy
    @rockababy Před 4 lety

    Flat planet*

  • @PurpleFiiilth
    @PurpleFiiilth Před 4 lety

    Time zones are pointless and unnecessary

  • @jacksbob8746
    @jacksbob8746 Před 4 lety

    Flat earthers are losing their minds now..