P4 explain time zones and their effect on travellers
In this assignment, I will be explaining how time zones affect different types of travellers
Time zones
Time zones are the time in different countries, and they are split up in terms of the hours in the day meaning there are 24 time zones. This can affect a traveller because they may find it difficult to travel because the times vary depending on whether you are travelling to the east or the west so your body made take a few days to get used to the time difference.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Greenwich Mean Time is the point from where time is decided in London, this is known as the GMT for London because it shows how countries are either behind the Greenwich Mean Time or ahead of it. This can affect a traveller who is going abroad because the GMT may be different from theirs; therefore they may miss their flight or even turn up too early.
Lines of longitude
The lines of longitude are the lines across the world, which are for each time zone in the world for each hour in the day meaning there are 24 lines of longitude. They travel across the northern and the southern hemisphere. They can affect a traveller because the time zones may be different and they would differ from the British time zone and therefore they could arrive at the country a few hours later or earlier according to where it is located, for example arriving at India at 02:00pm GMT would mean the time in India would be +5 hours to GMT so the time would be 07:30pm
Time differences when travelling through the eastern and western hemispheres
The time moves forwards or backwards depending on the direction in which they travel to whether it being east or west
If a tourist travels west then the time in that hemisphere i...
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To avoid jet lag tourists can book their flight beforehand; therefore they can know how long their flight will be and how long it’ll take. Another thing you could do is sleep before your flight because you won’t feel tired, therefore you won’t feel the negative aftershocks such as feeling exhausted and ill. A final thing tourists can do is be prepared and bring suitable equipment with you to avoid tiredness/jet lag. Therefore, you’ll easily sleep and not suffer any problems.
Crossing the International Date Line and losing or gaining a day.
When tourists travel over the International Date Line they can transfer between the east and the west. Therefore the time could be behind and in that country; this means that it is one day behind the eastern hemisphere or they could be one day in front if they are travelling in the western hemisphere.
Rather than fulfilling its original intent of energy conservation, Daylight Savings Time has not only become an unpopular, discombobulating nuisance but also a potential hazard to public safety and health.
For many Westerners, more specifically the driven citizens of the United States of America, time is viewed as a straight line. Our children realize this, consciously or not, early on. They make timelines in school, their classes switch on the hour, their intelligence is measured on a scale. We are born, we come of age during adolescence. We set a goal, we work to achieve success. Birth and death, childhood and adulthood are stages that occur only once. Life is black and white. Separate. The past is the past, the future is the future. Traveling on a straight line, we can only look forwards.
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I feel this time zone makes me doubt my abilities and sets me back. According to Philip Zimbardo we can change our time perspective and become a better person as a whole. In the book, “Time Paradox”, Philip Zimabrdo gives us tips on how we can change. One of the things he mentions is transforming your negative time perspective to see the positive side in every negative situation; furthermore, exchange those harmful deep-rooted events for something positive that happened to you in recent time. Other points Zimbardo gives on how you can stop living in the past is saying no to temptations, abstaining from alcohol, practicing relaxation methods, creating stability in your life, and working towards long term goals. The main goal is to have a balanced time perspective that will improve your life. Some ways that these tips can help me is in my everyday relationship with my
There is a new time zone for the United States, read to see what zone your in!
The body and brain are changing machines, where states of consciousness shift with zealous nature to allow our human anatomy to flourish. Schedules of the circadian rhythm function differently for everyone yet, is an important part of functioning for the human anatomy/mind. For the average person, however, the cycles we go through usually speak for a sleep rotation. But sometimes, even with these measured rituals, we find ourselves at a loss when we realize how fragile our circadian rhythm can be, caused by "insomnia," " jet-lag, " or even "weekend-lag."
Chronemics, also known as the study of time, varies greatly from culture to culture. The American culture is very adamant about time, that if one is late to an event, a negative message is usually attached to their behavior. Arriving to class or to a meeting on time is a typical norm for this
This is when the equinox occurs, there will be the same amount of daytime and nighttime. It will be 12 hours in the day, and 12 hours of night. People have said that if there was no tilt on the tilt, every single day would be an equinox. They also say that both halves of the Earth should have half a day of sun and half a time of dark nights. They do not think that this is right because there is an atmosphere.If the Earth had no tilt, there would also be no cycle of seasons, such as winters and summers. There are many disagreements to the subject of equinoxes, such as the questioning if there are equal days and nights on Earth. People believe that they are equal night and daytime, but another group believes that it is not possible for the earth to have equal daytime and
Before Fleming created the Standard Time, people in the 19th century determined the time using the sun. Instead of looking at the clock and knowing the time zone like today, they had to set their clocks to 12 p.m. when the sun reached the highest point. Therefore, if someone travelled to another province by a train, they had to readjust their pocket watch to the appropriate time of a certain province. The unorganized time zone caused great inconvenience for many travellers. Because of the confusion of time changes, "Fleming proposed a standard world time with twenty-four one-hour zones, each covering fifteen degrees of latitude, using one prime meridian to coordinate clocks over the entire globe." When an abundance of people recognized his proposition and supported his idea, the International Meridian Conference was held in Washington, DC in 1884 and initiated to use Fleming's concept of Standard Time. Without Fleming's idea of Standard Time, many tourists who travel across Canada would have missed their trains or planes, making them very distraught. Not only this benefitted Canadians, it also helped other people around the world who lived in a large country, such as United States.
1. Dateline-world region: The choices available were: North America (United States and Canada), Central America and the Caribbean, Latin America, Western Europe (including Turkey and Greece), Eastern Europe, Russia and former Soviet republics, China, the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa (including South Africa), developing Asia (mostly South and some Southeast Asia), developed Asia (mostly East and Southeast Asia), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific Islands), global, the United Nations and other similar global organizations, and other/none.
Daylight savings time has been something that individuals born post World War I have always had implemented in their lives. Many people never really consider the point of daylight savings time until it rolls around twice a year nor do they realize the original purpose. There are approximately 70 countries out of 196 that observe daylight savings time, at least in a portion of the country. Daylight savings time has had many changes throughout the history of it, but is it time to move on? Although there may be advantages such as more natural light, but disadvantages such as the disruptions with our circadian rhythms outweigh the advantages.
What timezone do you live in?: My timezone is Pacific Standards Time, or PST for short.
One of Grey’s objections to time travelling is the concept of no destination, which is based mostly on the belief in presentism and the rejection of the concept of past and future. His argument is that time travelling is only possible when the traveler travels to a past or future destination, and the destination has to exist. The past and the future don’t exist according to presentism, which is also called the “Heraclitean” conception of time by Grey. No one can travel to somewhere that doesn’t exist. Therefore, time travel is not possible.
The first way is that you accelerate away from a location that we will refer to as “at rest”, by accelerating back towards them you have effectively “skipped” a portion of time. This is due to spacetime being in balance so having such a large displacement of space means that time must move slower to balance that. Since the amount of time that has passed for you is less than the amount that passed for the location “at rest”. That now matches our definition for time travel and as such you have now traveled to the future. The second way that time dilation can occur is through being inside a strong gravitational, it has been observed that the passage of time in a strong field when observed by someone in a weaker field would be slower relative to the observer in the weak gravity field. This, by our definition of time travel, is an example of peering into the past or by entering that field entering the relative past.