Time Zones — Different Hours, Same Day

When it's noon in London, it's breakfast in New York and evening in Tokyo.

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Earth has 24 time zones

Earth spins one full turn in 24 hours. So mapmakers divided the world into 24 TIME ZONES — one per hour of rotation. Going EAST = add 1 hour per zone. Going WEST = subtract 1.