When you ask: What time is it in California?

Here is a small series of posts that cover the most asked ques­tions on Google. Most of these ques­tions won’t be ans­we­red here. Howe­ver, I might, for fun, give an ans­wer if I per­so­nal­ly know it. It’s most­ly to have fun with why people ask so many questions.

Excellent! We are chan­ging the type of ques­tions. This is real­ly good news. So, if you remem­ber, the second ques­tion was about the cur­rent time, but here, we are asking about a par­ti­cu­lar place in the world. For the youn­gest among you who might be rea­ding this, I remind you that the earth is divi­ded into time zones. Yes, in order to fol­low the rota­tion of the earth in rela­tion to the sun, it had to be “noon” when the sun was at its zenith, no mat­ter where you were on the planet.

So, you could natu­ral­ly say that there are 24 time zones and that these time zones fol­low the meri­dians of the earth? Wrong! Yes, we had to make it com­pli­ca­ted! 😆 Even worse, if you know how dif­fi­cult it is to make a “flat” map of the sur­face of a sphere, you will unders­tand that all the work done on two-dimen­sio­nal maps is mis­lea­ding and gives a false impres­sion. Most people for­get the sphere aspect when they look at a map. This is why, in my opi­nion, the best map in the world is on Google Maps. The 3D view of Google Maps is exact­ly what our per­cep­tion should be. If you do the expe­riment, this is what you will notice too when com­pa­ring Green­land and Afri­ca from a flat map and a sphe­ri­cal map. Impres­sive and not at all to scale, consi­de­ring I didn’t adjust the zoom while moving around the globe 😀 

As for the time in Cali­for­nia, -8 GMT if you are on stan­dard time, -7 on day­light saving time. But we’ll come back to that ano­ther day.

-Dan­ny

I’m Dan­ny (aka Coa­ch­Dan­ny). I have a pas­sion: humans. Come with me and take this minute eve­ry day to explore what’s going on today and why is it tren­ding. Click here to get your dai­ly thought right on time for break­fast.

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Trans­la­tion by Abbie Sims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acsims/

Last Upda­ted on Sep­tem­ber 8, 2021 by Coach Dan­ny