Strangest Time Zones of the World

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  • Опубликовано: 12 апр 2014
  • A video looking at some of the world's strangest time zones. Including: China, Kiribati, Nepal, Australia and more.
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  • @djrlathrop111
    @djrlathrop111 9 лет назад +3820

    When I create a country, I'll set the time zone to GMT-72. That way, if a country tries to attack us, we know everything they'll do three days before they do it.

    • @djrlathrop111
      @djrlathrop111 9 лет назад +263

      No, say we are declared war on on a Friday. For us, it's Tuesday, which means that we have three days advance notice before Friday, when they declare war. If it were Kiribati, we'd have 5 days advance notice. I get what you're saying, and that may have been the case a century ago, but now information can travel at lightning speed; the word would reach us almost instantaneously, while the war wouldn't begin for us until Friday.

    • @sparky_jolt5322
      @sparky_jolt5322 9 лет назад +255

      Daniel L. Unless the invader says fuck you and attacks anyways, completely disrespecting your time zone.

    • @djrlathrop111
      @djrlathrop111 9 лет назад +167

      Sparky_ Jolt Yeah but then there's a massive problem for them: they'll be jumping back in time. It's like Y2k, but for real. All those spreadsheets ruined, all those jet-lagged soldiers, their country is ruined!

    • @idkmanwhyigottaputmyname1804
      @idkmanwhyigottaputmyname1804 9 лет назад +51

      Whoa, for a second I thought that it'd actually work. Ehhhhh

    • @becomingfr33
      @becomingfr33 9 лет назад +42

      Daniel L. Except changing the time arbitrarily doesn't do shit to the actual time. If they decide to go to war with you on Friday, your Tuesday- they'll still invade on Tuesday your time, Friday theirs. Time is dictated by the sun and the moon. It's just humans that arbitrarily think they can control time.

  • @HECKproductions
    @HECKproductions 4 года назад +798

    nepal
    the only country with a +15 min time zone
    the only country with a non rectangular flag
    absolute mad lads

    • @kingchicken8232
      @kingchicken8232 4 года назад +39

      Next they’re going to be the first country with a special character in its name

    • @gumkl
      @gumkl 4 года назад +49

      @@kingchicken8232 côte d'ivoire: am i a joke to you?

    • @asph0le531
      @asph0le531 4 года назад +11

      switzerland technically has a square flag though

    • @michaelkappes8226
      @michaelkappes8226 4 года назад +4

      also, a really cool national anthem.

    • @gumkl
      @gumkl 4 года назад +1

      @@asph0le531 and monaco

  • @tigris8235
    @tigris8235 4 года назад +383

    Me before watching this: I wonder why time zones are weird
    Me after watching: I wonder why time zones are weird

    • @trevorjames7490
      @trevorjames7490 4 года назад +1

      Yeahh 😂😂👌

    • @trevorjames7490
      @trevorjames7490 4 года назад +1

      That's complicated

    • @you_dare_to_gaze_upon_me
      @you_dare_to_gaze_upon_me 3 года назад +2

      politics

    • @ChloekabanOfficial
      @ChloekabanOfficial 2 года назад

      @@lelouchlamperouge8093 What aspects of India?

    • @mathguy37
      @mathguy37 11 месяцев назад

      Mainly the half and quarter hour differences, why does india do that? Why does Nepal do that? Why does that one small city of like 200 do that?

  • @christopherahben8027
    @christopherahben8027 4 года назад +85

    As a Samoan I can say you were spot on with the time changes. In 2011, most Samoans celebrated the switch by hosting sci-fi parties and the biggest one was called "Time warp" which was hosted by Bluesky a local Telecom company.

  • @Whatsth3b1g1d3a
    @Whatsth3b1g1d3a 8 лет назад +1144

    You can add North Korea to the list of "Countries that have their time set on the half hour" with the introduction of Pyongyang Standard Time last year.

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  8 лет назад +132

      +Willem Cohen RUclips videos cannot be edited.

    • @Whatsth3b1g1d3a
      @Whatsth3b1g1d3a 8 лет назад +136

      WonderWhy Yes, but they can be annotated.

    • @jasontscott-west6037
      @jasontscott-west6037 8 лет назад +27

      +WonderWhy And also corrected and reuploaded

    • @Officialhelpkenet
      @Officialhelpkenet 8 лет назад +92

      +Jason T Scott-West Would you throw away 850 000 views and 10 000 likes for a minor edit?

    • @jasontscott-west6037
      @jasontscott-west6037 8 лет назад +2

      Officialhelpkenet at least a follow up video

  • @plankboygame9492
    @plankboygame9492 7 лет назад +1242

    my head hurts

  • @obhatti
    @obhatti 7 лет назад +868

    Imagine flying from Kiribati to Hawaii on New Years? You'd get to celebrate twice!!! :D

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 5 лет назад +39

      Just remember, #sayKIRIBAS

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад +10

      Or Christmas.

    • @JorgePerez-zh8io
      @JorgePerez-zh8io 4 года назад +6

      Christmas

    • @DiamondYoshi101
      @DiamondYoshi101 4 года назад +5

      Or on your birthday

    • @JoeMilllionaire
      @JoeMilllionaire 4 года назад

      @Proud Bangladeshi গর্বিত বাংলাদেশী interesting. Thank you for that

  • @shuhratkessikbayev8886
    @shuhratkessikbayev8886 4 года назад +335

    Teacher: The test isn't that complicated
    The test:

  • @WaLdo5940
    @WaLdo5940 9 лет назад +734

    Why are people bitching about his accent? English isn't my first language and I understand him perfectly, I don't see the problem.

    • @idkmanwhyigottaputmyname1804
      @idkmanwhyigottaputmyname1804 9 лет назад +70

      I know right, he spoke very clearly in my opinion.

    • @riggygoyal
      @riggygoyal 9 лет назад +24

      Eduardo Mañón Yeah, besides there are captions to use too.

    • @WaLdo5940
      @WaLdo5940 9 лет назад

      Rigved Goyal Exactly bro

    • @Starbattle64
      @Starbattle64 9 лет назад +47

      Eduardo Mañón He has a fantastic scottish accent, I have absolutely no problem with it. Wtf is wrong with people.

    • @chibiprussia5574
      @chibiprussia5574 8 лет назад +2

      Starbattle64 He's Scottish?

  • @lukescholz1
    @lukescholz1 7 лет назад +2250

    "tamezone"

    • @bagel29
      @bagel29 7 лет назад +180

      the accent was strong with this one

    • @thisisbien1271
      @thisisbien1271 7 лет назад +82

      *deat lien*

    • @michaelzhang5074
      @michaelzhang5074 7 лет назад +27

      UNNECESSARY CAPS "lane islands" now i understand why americans make so much fun of british people

    • @seanwilkinson3975
      @seanwilkinson3975 7 лет назад +33

      I would like to know the presenter's area from which his Scottish accent originates, as I've heard similar versions where it sounds like the other speakers are talking through mouthfuls of saliva.

    • @thisisbien1271
      @thisisbien1271 7 лет назад +4

      Zenith Rendezvous buet eye'm British

  • @KeijiJohnLibadisos
    @KeijiJohnLibadisos 6 лет назад +1067

    It's 3PM everywhere. simple!
    Australia : But ... It's nighttime
    UK : Deal with it

    • @cheeseburgermonkey7104
      @cheeseburgermonkey7104 6 лет назад

      we know

    • @galacticempire2733
      @galacticempire2733 5 лет назад +1

      Deal with it I'm having some issues. (Lost my tea)

    • @MrDanisve
      @MrDanisve 5 лет назад +12

      Indeed, should just let time be time. So what if i start at work at 0300 or 0900. And this summertime nonsense. Adjust workhours instead of time. World is quite global now, and its not rare to get into a confusion about time and timezones. If i say lets meet up at 3pm, a person should be able to get that info. Without having to ask where i am, what my timezone is. Then convert into his time. Not rare to get mixups with my internet friends from across the globe.

    • @rozettep.9693
      @rozettep.9693 5 лет назад

      Keiji John Libadisos zっsws22w

    • @rozettep.9693
      @rozettep.9693 5 лет назад

      Keiji John Libadisos 😋😋😝😅

  • @mysseraefim7852
    @mysseraefim7852 4 года назад +55

    UK: Raining on a Monday Morning, how bloody great
    USA: It's so sunny today, I'm going to Disneyland
    Australia: Goodnight folks!

  • @chrisbeck4500
    @chrisbeck4500 8 лет назад +606

    Russia: "Imma DST"
    World: "Ok"
    *few months later*
    World: "OK Russia, time to go back to regular time"
    Russia: "Nah I don't really feel like it"
    World: "Russia that's not how it works"
    Russia: "Fuck off"

    • @stan4609
      @stan4609 8 лет назад +2

      lol

    • @alexisauld7781
      @alexisauld7781 8 лет назад +79

      +Chris Beck
      World: "Russia, you're drunk, go home"
      Russia: "Drunk is home. Clock is wrong. Is Russian clock, is always wrong."

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 8 лет назад +41

      In Soviet Russia times tells you!

    • @Kwarduk
      @Kwarduk 8 лет назад

      +oilersridersbluejays lololol

    • @jimespera9031
      @jimespera9031 8 лет назад

      regular show reference?

  • @robcamp9260
    @robcamp9260 7 лет назад +336

    came here _only_ to hear if kiribati was pronounced correctly; narrator does not disappoint

    • @joshuarosen6242
      @joshuarosen6242 7 лет назад +17

      I knew nothing about the pronunciation of Kiribati until I watched this (apparently unlike you) so it appears I may have learnt something else as well. Thank you.

    • @robcamp9260
      @robcamp9260 7 лет назад +39

      It's "Kiriba*s*," and that's just how the "ti" is pronounced in the Kiribatese language because there is no "s" in their language's alphabet. It isn't all that intuitive to English speakers, but who cares, they don't need to accommodate us.
      Also, accents. It's just the way they sound, big deal. We probably sound like morons to people from foreign nations. Calm down, guy.

    • @joshuarosen6242
      @joshuarosen6242 7 лет назад +34

      DarkEye22 It's ironic that someone would use a load of verbal diarrhoea like this to complain about the way something is spelt.
      You can neither spell nor punctuate. Until you learn to do both, I suggest you refrain from criticising anyone else's spelling.

    • @rynabuns
      @rynabuns 7 лет назад +9

      Dennis Fluttershy They don't have to throw away centuries of culture just to accommodate our language. There are places in the world with "weird" pronunciation that are older than English itself; why should they care about how lazy people on the Internet who can't be bothered to learn the proper pronunciation?
      Besides, there are plenty of places in the UK that have weird pronunciation; should we change them? Should we change all the names in Wales? Ireland? Should we rename Greenwich to Grenich? Reading to Redding? Worcestershire to Woostursher? Leicester? Marylebone? Holborn?
      Maybe I sound a little peeved. But culture is so important, and we're already losing a ton of it every day…

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 6 лет назад

      I pronounce it Kitty's Back because that's how I say it in my culture of laziness. It's spelled that way just to mess up kids in spelling bees and on Jeopardy.

  • @gftyhify
    @gftyhify 3 года назад +18

    There have been several changes since this video was made.
    Venezuela switched from -4.30 to -4.00 in 2016
    North Korea used +8.30 from 2015-2018 and had since returned to +9.00
    Russia switched back to standard time permanently in 2014 and also increased its number of time zones back to 11

  • @brendonmcmorrow3886
    @brendonmcmorrow3886 6 лет назад +12

    Excellent stuff. I always found the Australian time zones pretty strange. To complicate matters further, I think that some parts of Northern NSW follow Queensland time when Daylight Saving applies in NSW (but not in Queensland).

  • @PS3PS3PS3PS3
    @PS3PS3PS3PS3 7 лет назад +285

    And I thought time zones were confusing before, holy shit.

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад +5

      Me too. I didn't know there were quarter, half hour, 3 quarters time zones. That's weird, ain't it?

    • @tsepenny3870
      @tsepenny3870 4 года назад

      I wanna die

    • @pr1z_
      @pr1z_ 4 года назад +1

      Tse Penny 🗡

    • @_dallas_
      @_dallas_ 3 года назад

      They are tank, tame, team zones...

  • @RJA10001
    @RJA10001 8 лет назад +219

    It's 3 in the morning here. What the hell am I doing watching a video on time zones?

    • @dxutube
      @dxutube 8 лет назад +15

      Because internet

    • @ShadySableye77
      @ShadySableye77 8 лет назад

      Same

    • @elevendyseven4227
      @elevendyseven4227 8 лет назад +12

      Your proving to yourself that your not staying up late by finding countries where it's not late.

    • @willpugh-calotte2199
      @willpugh-calotte2199 8 лет назад +3

      +R.J. Arsenault You had insomnia and needed to get properly zoned out in order to fall asleep.

    • @gavrilmilosevski716
      @gavrilmilosevski716 8 лет назад +1

      hahaha

  • @SephirothRyu
    @SephirothRyu 4 года назад +19

    Because of the background music, I just keep imagining these timezones designed by Kerbals.

    • @fluffly3606
      @fluffly3606 3 года назад +1

      That would indeed be very kerbal lol

  • @VectraVX
    @VectraVX 2 года назад +4

    I’ve learnt more from this brilliant dude than I have from GCSE Geography. Keep it up bro, your videos are always fascinating and fun to watch!!

  • @deldarel
    @deldarel 9 лет назад +118

    What I learned in this video:
    Timezones are just choices made for trading and aren't that complicated. It's like grammer: 90% follows the rule, but the deviant 10% makes it look like an untangleable mess.
    The real evil is daylight savings time. (seriously, why does it still exist? It should have been abolished 30 years ago)

    • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
      @Inkyminkyzizwoz 9 лет назад +17

      There are more hours of daylight during the summer than the winter, but without DST quite a bit of that extra daylight would be early in the morning when most people would be in bed! Basically, Daylight SAVING Time 'saves' some of that daylight for the evening when most people are still going to be awake to make use of it! Basically it's designed to give most people as much daylight as possible in their waking hours - though whether there's necessarily any advantage to that is disputed

    • @deldarel
      @deldarel 9 лет назад +3

      Inkyminkyzizwoz yeah, I know, but how is this useful in the globalised age of the light bulb and the computer? It's more of a nuisance than an aid.

    • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
      @Inkyminkyzizwoz 9 лет назад +13

      PrimaPunchy Well, the idea was that if people get more daylight during their waking hours they won't use as much artificial lighting and therefore it'll save on electricity!

    • @deldarel
      @deldarel 9 лет назад

      ruclips.net/video/84aWtseb2-4/видео.html
      Try this CGP grey video. It has a great amount of arguments against daylight saving time

    • @Iceechibi
      @Iceechibi 9 лет назад +2

      Idk I live in Texas and I have lived in Arizona, which does not follow daylight savings time.
      It wasn't much different not having daylight savings time tbh

  • @nine300
    @nine300 7 лет назад +838

    Accent or no, can we all just take a moment to appreciate that he pronounces "Kiribati" correctly (sounds like "Kiribas")

    • @yusadani755
      @yusadani755 5 лет назад +48

      John Dee
      This is the shit I don’t get. If it’s pronounced “Kiribas,” why is t spelled “Kiribati?” That’s the most stupidest shit ever. That’s like instead of America being pronounced Ah-meh-ri-kah, it’s pronounced Ey-ma-ra-ya-ri-ka-me

    • @brookeking8559
      @brookeking8559 5 лет назад +43

      Hyumanggis Fatsou I don’t know Kiribati phonetics, but I remember the pronunciation by thinking of it as similar to - not the same as - “ti” in English words like “aviation.”

    • @yusadani755
      @yusadani755 5 лет назад +3

      Brooke King
      It’s the same with Chuukese. I was speaking with my Chuukese friend last year, she said that “thank you” was “Kirisou.” The spelling is “Kinisou” in Chuukese, but the pronunciation is like “Kirisou.” Makes nonsense at all like wtf.

    • @arthurvanrodds2772
      @arthurvanrodds2772 5 лет назад +8

      Well the words queue and comfortable are way more stupid

    • @terryplatt8115
      @terryplatt8115 5 лет назад +8

      The Pacific island of Kiritimati... by their pronunciation (and who's to say they're wrong?) is Christmas Island. See it differently, it only takes a minor readjustment of your understanding that we are not all the same.
      Go look at all the (to us) weird pronunciations of letters and letter groupings just in the European languages - everything from Finnish to Albanian to Catalan to Hungarian, where they all have their own rules of how it is spelled and spoken. Are they all stupid too?

  • @joshuajudas2414
    @joshuajudas2414 5 лет назад +1

    I absolutely love this video. Thanks! I also love the Fable-esque background music.

  • @Cumrag69420
    @Cumrag69420 7 лет назад +29

    8:16. damn the savage level is off the charts

    • @zachogilman7397
      @zachogilman7397 6 лет назад +2

      +Rapid Gameplay Yes, LOL the commonwealth realm in full force!

    • @greer8288
      @greer8288 3 года назад

      Your kinda slow

  • @24karatHAMSTER
    @24karatHAMSTER 8 лет назад +232

    I'm gonna go play KSP now

    • @p0xus
      @p0xus 8 лет назад +31

      +Squiddy I heard the music and immediately thought... "Am I in space?"

    • @AdamAbrahamMaheswara
      @AdamAbrahamMaheswara 8 лет назад

      XD

    • @alexisauld7781
      @alexisauld7781 8 лет назад +13

      +Squiddy "Yes, I made it to orbit! ...wait..." XD

    • @figyfigvam
      @figyfigvam 8 лет назад +11

      I thought I got my duna rocket to space. But it dix not.. sniff

    • @sirpercythrillington
      @sirpercythrillington 8 лет назад +8

      +Stan110 Literally just got finished looking for KSP.exe in task manager.

  • @rubensdutchmariogames
    @rubensdutchmariogames 7 лет назад +258

    before the second world war, the Netherlands had a time zone of +0:20

    • @Julio974
      @Julio974 7 лет назад +30

      What ???

    • @rooshannah
      @rooshannah 7 лет назад +7

      Serieus? Dat wist ik niet, you learn something new everyday :)

    • @TopOfAllWorlds
      @TopOfAllWorlds 7 лет назад +3

      rubens dutch mario games lol wtf Netherlands why?

    • @Ciscogrande
      @Ciscogrande 7 лет назад +83

      That was a legit reason for an invasion

    • @bleuthoot
      @bleuthoot 7 лет назад +1

      rubens dutch mario games WHY THE NETHERLANDS

  • @RobMcCauslandArt
    @RobMcCauslandArt 7 лет назад +2

    I love your channel!!! I really like the way you present the material and the great map work you do!!! As well as being entertaining, you learn something too! Great channel buddy!! Keep up the great work that you do!
    IT ROCKS!!

  • @allgone4615
    @allgone4615 4 года назад +1

    This is an awesome video! I had no idea it was so complicated around world. Thanks for making. 😊

  • @jabrown
    @jabrown 8 лет назад +326

    Props for pronouncing Kiribati the right way.
    But I missed something about time zones at the poles.

    • @umidontno040394
      @umidontno040394 8 лет назад +15

      it is "keer-i-bas"? i always said "keer-i-bah-te"

    • @jabrown
      @jabrown 8 лет назад +24

      umidontno082230
      nope, in Gilbertese (their official language) "ti" is pronounced "s", so "keer-i-bas" indeed :)

    • @umidontno040394
      @umidontno040394 8 лет назад +16

      ***** huh, i wonder how many other country names i am pronouncing wrong...

    • @kevincasey5035
      @kevincasey5035 7 лет назад +1

      Surely one "day" at the poles is just the length of the year?

    • @jabrown
      @jabrown 7 лет назад +2

      Kevin Casey
      I don't know, that may be how it works, but that's why I would've liked to hear something about that.

  • @NotAnEvilMastermind
    @NotAnEvilMastermind 7 лет назад +34

    This makes me glad to be living in a country with one time zone and nothing too complex in any nearby countries either.

  • @xCranoLoco
    @xCranoLoco 4 года назад +15

    Lol I'm from Kiribati and didn't realise how complicated time zones were til watching this video lmao

  • @SomeYouTubeGuy
    @SomeYouTubeGuy 4 года назад +7

    The single timezone at 45 minutes past the hour in Australia is in the locality of Eucla, Western Australia. The reason for the unique timezone has to do with the telegraph station that used to be there. The distance between Perth and Adelaide was too far for a telegraph signal to carry so they built a telegraph station half way between the two. 1 operator would receive the transmission then pass it to the other operator who would re transmit it to the destination. As they were working in between the two cities it didn't make sense to adopt any one timezone so they halved the 90 minute difference and created the UTC +8:45 timezone.

    • @WhizzKid2012
      @WhizzKid2012 7 месяцев назад

      There is no 8:45 timestamp. The length of video is 8:39

    • @WhizzKid2012
      @WhizzKid2012 7 месяцев назад

      Not the single. 5:45 in Nepalm8:45 Eucla 12 r5 chatham

  • @chichinitz
    @chichinitz 7 лет назад +209

    The sun was at its highest point at 12 noon. This is known as HIGH NOON.

    • @zaid1936
      @zaid1936 7 лет назад +9

      Is that an overwatch reference?
      A warnjg?
      If so
      I gotta find cover

    • @acanofspam4347
      @acanofspam4347 7 лет назад

      chichinitz XD

    • @SomeoneCommenting
      @SomeoneCommenting 7 лет назад +1

      Only if you chose your time zones so that it would do it exactly at 12 in the watch...

    • @kitsilanocat
      @kitsilanocat 7 лет назад +7

      I thought high noon was at 4:20 pm... I might be wrong tho

    • @huxley3043
      @huxley3043 7 лет назад +12

      it's high noon somewhere in the world

  • @Broockle
    @Broockle 9 лет назад +30

    What do you mean? One time zone is the best solution. It would greatly simplify online schedules for live streams and planning meetings with people on the other side of the world would be so much easier. What could possibly be a downside to this?
    "Morning", "Noon", "Evening" and "Night" would just have different times in different parts of the world and people would universaly understand that "Noon" is that certain hour in this part of the world if you're just planning things localy.
    It all works, time zones are idiologcal and will be gone with more and more advancements in communication and the increased simplicity and speed of travel. 12 does not have to be Noon, it's dumb to restrict yourself to that thinking.
    Why would you not got rid of them?

    • @timothyyap3479
      @timothyyap3479 9 лет назад +4

      Lets all use Beijing time then XDDD

    • @Broockle
      @Broockle 9 лет назад

      timothy yap I rly dun mind which one. As long as we all manage to agree on one.

    • @Taeerom
      @Taeerom 9 лет назад +3

      TBH you can still do that with the time we have now. Just set your watch (or a watch) at zulu time (GMT). NATO does this to a large extent already when coordinating between different countries.

    • @Broockle
      @Broockle 9 лет назад

      Taeerom
      That's a start, now web streamers need to start anouncing their schedule with that too xD
      Maybe some already are, but I've never seen it.

    • @Broockle
      @Broockle 9 лет назад +2

      ***** The hours are just numbers. You can get used to them no matter what they are.
      And the weekdays only really affect what days you work and which you don't.
      The days will switch in the middle of the day in some places in the world, that will prbly take some getting used to. But you'd have a universal understanding for the term "5pm on Friday". So when there's an online event at that time, everyone will easily schedule into it.
      This will become increasingly important as we globalize more and more. Especially in the not too distance future when it will be possible to travel anywhere in the world within an hour. Then having only 1 global time zone will be even more important.
      At the moment the current time zone system does work. You just constantly need to do the math in your head, and keep multiple clocks on your cell phone.
      We might just come up with an entirely new ingenious time system that will be more comprehensible on a global scale.
      Them weekdays do cause some problems without time zones actually xD

  • @michaelmayfield4304
    @michaelmayfield4304 4 года назад +3

    I was born aised raised in Eastern Tennessee (central time), north of Chattanooga, TN (eastern time). It took us 1 hour to drive to Chattanooga - leave at 2pm and arrive at 4pm (setting your clock ahead, obviously). Driving home, leaving at 5pm and one hour later pulling into our driveway at (you guessed it) 5pm. 2 hours to get there, 0 to get home.

  • @mrpapagiorgio5404
    @mrpapagiorgio5404 4 года назад

    You just earned a sub man this video was very well put together and absolutely blew my mind

  • @VicHD
    @VicHD 8 лет назад +28

    The video is now slightly outdated since Venezuela switched back to -4:00 UTC on May 1st.

  • @sohamdutta5827
    @sohamdutta5827 7 лет назад +249

    Niue parents: Go to bed at 7:00 AM kids.

    • @sorayacatfriend
      @sorayacatfriend 7 лет назад +4

      Lol

    • @mjs3531
      @mjs3531 7 лет назад +1

      Soham Dutta lol

    • @Gamera_the_Inconceivable
      @Gamera_the_Inconceivable 7 лет назад +1

      Soham Dutta 😲 that is so funny 😂

    • @tekmogm5979
      @tekmogm5979 4 года назад +1

      Niue is a very weird country, they have Pikachu and Mickey Mouse coins, and they are part of New Zealand but independent at the same time. They are not in UN but they can enter when they decide it.

    •  4 года назад

      @@tekmogm5979 Had you been there?

  • @ugommaokorie1660
    @ugommaokorie1660 4 года назад +3

    Man! This was COMPLICATED! Great video though.👍🏾👍🏾 I liked the little speech bubble captions 😂

  • @nicholasrackham1615
    @nicholasrackham1615 6 лет назад

    This was fantastically explained. Thank you.

  • @americawashington2700
    @americawashington2700 10 лет назад +28

    This video taught me that I've been mispronouncing Kiribati for years.

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  10 лет назад +33

      Is it something that comes up a lot in everyday conversation?

    • @SilverWave64
      @SilverWave64 10 лет назад +4

      Bassam zubedi I guess it's a lot of work finding a topic, doing internet research, writing the script, recording it, finding images, producing the video and uploading it! ;)

    • @connorrcompton
      @connorrcompton 10 лет назад

      You can either say ki ri ba tee
      Or ki ri bas

    • @adkforever6997
      @adkforever6997 4 года назад

      @@connorrcompton NO YOU CANT!!! IT'S ONLY PRONOUNCED KI RI BAS!

  • @TheChaoticUnicorn
    @TheChaoticUnicorn 10 лет назад +25

    You deserve more than 24k subscribers.

  • @oliveroliveroliver
    @oliveroliveroliver 5 лет назад +2

    I actually really like your accent, it’s really nice sounding to me. Also, A+ on pronouncing Kiribati correctly.

  • @chas2077
    @chas2077 5 месяцев назад

    An absolutltely fascinating, informative and perfectly executed video. Many thanks.

  • @AprilLVideos
    @AprilLVideos 10 лет назад +21

    i've calculated that you've uploaded a video about every 49 days since your first video was uploaded. that means i'll be expecting a video (hopefully on the western sahara) on june 1!

  • @theguywithamac314
    @theguywithamac314 10 лет назад +16

    Its good to see you back again

  • @mjcato1
    @mjcato1 4 года назад

    this was a great video, thankyou

  • @NoviceProductions...
    @NoviceProductions... 3 года назад

    This is really helpful!!

  • @dtrez09
    @dtrez09 8 лет назад +22

    the downside to having a Nepali friend: having to do mental maths all the time to work out what time it is for them.

    • @zachogilman7397
      @zachogilman7397 6 лет назад +1

      +Oh!sama Mathematics is incredibly good for strengthening your brain, and is not so hard when you face it with a POSITIVE ATTITUDE!

    • @SCSilk
      @SCSilk 5 лет назад

      Your smart phone knows the time zones.

  • @luumsp3756
    @luumsp3756 9 лет назад +89

    I feel kinda sorry for WonderWhy since many people are making fun of his accent :(

    • @jojo01
      @jojo01 9 лет назад +6

      He's from Scotland.

    • @jojo01
      @jojo01 9 лет назад +5

      He's from Scotland.

    • @luumsp3756
      @luumsp3756 9 лет назад +4

      I know ^^

    • @vanguard6498
      @vanguard6498 9 лет назад +3


      He's from Scotland.
      Luu Msp

    • @ryangrant7206
      @ryangrant7206 9 лет назад +2

      me too i feel real sorry im from usa hes sounds just find to me.

  • @Stormwarrior-er4lk
    @Stormwarrior-er4lk 4 года назад +11

    8:15 Australia "its bedtime" England :"good morning" Australia ...

  • @archiebarnett7715
    @archiebarnett7715 6 лет назад

    This is a very interesting video, kudos for making this

  • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
    @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 8 лет назад +12

    Congratulations for this awesome video! I imagine how hard you must have researched and how hard it must have been to understand all this!
    I definitely subscribed! 👍

  • @Tomtiedom12
    @Tomtiedom12 10 лет назад +20

    Really good vids. CGPGrey-like vids are awesome!

  • @fuzzythinker3533
    @fuzzythinker3533 6 лет назад

    Very interesting. Thank you very much.

  • @Abigael317
    @Abigael317 Год назад

    I enjoy the narrator's voice! Thank you for all the work for this video!

  • @TryHardSoviet
    @TryHardSoviet 10 лет назад +11

    Everything about your videos are perfect. Please never stop making them :D

  • @seanwilkinson3975
    @seanwilkinson3975 8 лет назад +20

    Old Canadian visual joke:
    A wild-eyed, shaggy-haired eligious zealot walks down the street, ringing a hand bell, wearing a "sandwich board" sign reading:
    THE WORLD SHALL END AT
    MIDNIGHT
    (12:30 in Newfoundland)

  • @markleon411
    @markleon411 7 лет назад +1

    Really fascinating video. I live in Australia and didn't even know many of those facts.

  • @rockets1671
    @rockets1671 4 года назад +106

    China: Uses same time zone
    Me: Communism intensifies...

    • @adkforever6997
      @adkforever6997 4 года назад +1

      Beat it, you right wing Nazi

    • @dinoxman8584
      @dinoxman8584 4 года назад +6

      ADKforever Nazi’s are Fascist, not Communist. Unless you are joking and I don’t get something, so if it is a joke, then I accept the woooosh.

    • @crysisbai
      @crysisbai 2 года назад

      that definitely helps tho, otherwise you need to calculate the different time zones which could be a pain in the ass

  • @Toby_Larone
    @Toby_Larone 10 лет назад +7

    Love your vids. Please try to post them more often

  • @Nirinsanity
    @Nirinsanity 10 лет назад +5

    Loving this channel.

  • @oliverblackburn3998
    @oliverblackburn3998 4 года назад

    I enjoyed this! I especially liked the part about the Diomede Islands!

  • @robinm4265
    @robinm4265 Год назад

    Thanks for sharing

  • @ariztrad4386
    @ariztrad4386 7 лет назад +42

    KSP music in background lol

  • @JakeWolf00
    @JakeWolf00 7 лет назад +89

    At 1:14, if you look in the top left, it says: "Wonder why it's not abbreviated CUT? Blame the French." Who else noticed it?

    • @purpleapple4052
      @purpleapple4052 7 лет назад

      Me...

    • @Maxence1402a
      @Maxence1402a 7 лет назад +13

      I noticed this complete bullshit, since in French it is said "temps universel coordonné"...

    • @kalani5559
      @kalani5559 7 лет назад +15

      +Maxence1402a the British way is to blame the French for everything.

    • @zachogilman7397
      @zachogilman7397 6 лет назад +2

      Needlessly saying this, but LOL I noticed. The funniest guys on RUclips (coincidentally the people who I have subscribed to) hide something in their educational vids

    • @nasyithrahman9594
      @nasyithrahman9594 5 лет назад +17

      UTC is compromise between English and French since both parties cannot agree whether to use English CUT or French TUC

  • @WonderWhy
    @WonderWhy  5 лет назад +16

    I finally got around to looking at the question that I posed at the end of the video - do we even need time zones? Link here: ruclips.net/video/INAqKthUPl4/видео.html

  • @colin1444
    @colin1444 Год назад

    Thank for video

  • @ketam1ne420
    @ketam1ne420 8 лет назад +49

    Since the creation of this video, North Korea has adopted the time zone +8:30.
    As if North Korea made any sense anyway.

    • @VireshRajivUmbre
      @VireshRajivUmbre 8 лет назад

      +Napalm I was thinking the same thing.

    • @won1853
      @won1853 8 лет назад +3

      +Napalm Yeah. The funny thing is, now that South Korea and North Korea have different time zones, North Korean delegates always arrive 30 minutes later than the South Koreans. Both sides hate each other so they just keep using their own time zones.

    • @ketam1ne420
      @ketam1ne420 8 лет назад +6

      2015CricketWorldCup Can you speak English? You speak a dialect called "unfunny 2 year old" that I am unable to understand.

    • @LSDOvideos
      @LSDOvideos 8 лет назад +2

      +Napalm
      It would've been classier if you just didn't respond mate.

    • @nicholass9598
      @nicholass9598 8 лет назад

      +Napalm North Korea wanted to go back to their old time zone before the invasion of Japan in 1910.

  • @chilloutboy5170
    @chilloutboy5170 7 лет назад +79

    Ok my house's time zone is +10:01
    unique

  • @wyattbentley1262
    @wyattbentley1262 5 лет назад +2

    I subscribed to you!

  • @baldeepbirak
    @baldeepbirak 6 лет назад +37

    Wow. 3 different dates.

  • @ixdark1482
    @ixdark1482 7 лет назад +55

    Nepal is savage

    • @atouloupas
      @atouloupas 7 лет назад +8

      The time zone, the flag, what else do you want? 😝

    • @dipeshkhadka7327
      @dipeshkhadka7327 7 лет назад

      you are wrong
      but
      I don't fight with you wrong.
      I am a Nepalese

    • @atouloupas
      @atouloupas 7 лет назад +4

      Dipesh Khadka Because of these facts, it makes Nepal awesome! Why is he wrong? No one said Nepal is bad! It has the coolest flag and you can design it only by following instructions in geometry.

    • @kevinkimpel302
      @kevinkimpel302 6 лет назад +3

      I loved my time spent in Nepal no matter what time the clock said it was.

    • @SkyscraperM
      @SkyscraperM 6 лет назад

      Απόστολος Τουλούπας hes a weirdo who doesnt know english. he doesnt understand

  • @MERTZY
    @MERTZY 7 лет назад +28

    First video I've clicked to on my recommended list and I don't regret it. Really shows the effort you put into this video :)

    • @freedbus
      @freedbus 9 месяцев назад

      MERTZY WHAT TF R U DOING HERE BROTGER

    • @AZGamezYT
      @AZGamezYT 5 месяцев назад +1

      Fr

  • @vasilzahariev5741
    @vasilzahariev5741 7 лет назад

    Very informative.

  • @sfirro
    @sfirro 7 лет назад

    You earned a subscriber by exploding my mind here.

  • @rmrealm
    @rmrealm 9 лет назад +15

    Why do people care so much about his accent? It's really easy to understand.

    • @edwardlau892
      @edwardlau892 7 лет назад +3

      He has an adorable accent. That's why. :D

  • @passaggioalivello
    @passaggioalivello 8 лет назад +14

    I love this video, really thank you, you're great

    • @JustAGiraffe
      @JustAGiraffe 8 лет назад +6

      Props to you for using the correct form of you're/your!
      (seriously, you won't believe how many people fuck that up. :3)

  • @adityajonathanmamahit2889
    @adityajonathanmamahit2889 4 года назад +1

    You sounds like kmac2021. Interesting! *Subscribed

  • @tjkhanks
    @tjkhanks 4 года назад +2

    In North Dakota, in the USA, a timezone line used to go right through the twin cities of Bismarck and Mandan. They had to move it because at 2AM in Bismarck, when all the bars closed, there would be a mad rush to Mandan by all the bar patrons to get another hour of drinking in. It caused so many accidents.

  • @BenPalmersuniverse
    @BenPalmersuniverse 10 лет назад +47

    Can you do one on the western sahara? It confuses me so much.

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  10 лет назад +31

      Yes, this is actually one of the topics that's on my list.

    • @BenPalmersuniverse
      @BenPalmersuniverse 10 лет назад +5

      WonderWhy brilliant :)

    • @AprilLVideos
      @AprilLVideos 10 лет назад

      WonderWhy can you do it for your next video?

    • @mattianoob99
      @mattianoob99 10 лет назад +1

      WonderWhy wait my brain is still in apnoea :D (english is not my mother lenguage :D)also did you notice that putting all the continents all together you will obtain the shape of a chiken? don't know how important it is, but it's cool :D, just thought you should know it :D.

    • @thisishowirelax148
      @thisishowirelax148 10 лет назад +2

      mattianoob99
      A chicken called Pangaea haha.

  • @xxnalxx5226
    @xxnalxx5226 7 лет назад +22

    My head hurt legit

  • @HeruHermansyah
    @HeruHermansyah 4 года назад

    this is the answer of my big question, thank you!

  • @TheLTCtrainer
    @TheLTCtrainer 6 лет назад

    Very interesting!

  • @treejoe4
    @treejoe4 9 лет назад +36

    is the background music frost waltz from KSP?

    • @treejoe4
      @treejoe4 9 лет назад

      Alex Colledge
      ty, used in ksp too

    • @Linkan1998
      @Linkan1998 9 лет назад +9

      i first thought KSP vas playing in the backgrund but then i discoverd it was the video

    • @phonyshoemaker7379
      @phonyshoemaker7379 9 лет назад

      linus lindmark
      same here

    • @poppoku9229
      @poppoku9229 9 лет назад

      No, It's The Harry Potter Song

    • @12andrewrules
      @12andrewrules 9 лет назад

      I thought that as well :). love that game

  • @pauliefox2077
    @pauliefox2077 9 лет назад +5

    Australia: But it's night time!
    Europe: DEAL WITH IT!

  • @grungeman86
    @grungeman86 5 лет назад +2

    Thanks for including subtitles in this video. I really could have not understand much without it, your accent is veeery particular.

  • @dontaskiwasbored2008
    @dontaskiwasbored2008 Год назад

    This channel's two videos on time zones are the only sane and factual videos I have found on this topic thus far.

  • @VaraNiN
    @VaraNiN 10 лет назад +17

    Really great vid (once again)! You deserve way more subs than 24k! Btw: where do u come from (I ask because of your funny accent^^)

    • @lock_ray
      @lock_ray 10 лет назад

      Sounds Australian to me...

    • @Gorjid19Venus
      @Gorjid19Venus 10 лет назад +22

      Lock Ray He's from Scotland.

    • @lock_ray
      @lock_ray 10 лет назад

      Gorjid19Venus hehe, my bad then

    • @AprilLVideos
      @AprilLVideos 10 лет назад +3

      he's from scotland

    • @biohazard2919
      @biohazard2919 10 лет назад +4

      Lock Ray
      What the hell?

  • @revinhatol
    @revinhatol 10 лет назад +7

    Kiribas gaining independence from the UK and expanded eastward through the Line Islands? Wow!

  • @sachinmotwani2905
    @sachinmotwani2905 7 лет назад

    Gr8 explanation

  • @temptationofmemories
    @temptationofmemories 6 лет назад +2

    Wow I live in Australia and as such am so used to the adjusting time zones and certain states and territories using daylight saving while others don't, that I never considered how weird it must be to international visitors.

  • @ImDeluxeSP33some
    @ImDeluxeSP33some 10 лет назад +10

    Timezones. Yup, we screwed up on that too :D

  • @SilverWave64
    @SilverWave64 10 лет назад +20

    Why don't the time zones in the U.S. just run along the borders of its states? (0:30)
    Wouldn't this be a lot easier to handle?

    • @maltager5106
      @maltager5106 10 лет назад +5

      Yes, but people are stupid.

    • @justinpoland4710
      @justinpoland4710 10 лет назад +11

      Generally they do, with a few important exceptions. For example the state line between Illinois and Indiana separates Eastern time and Central time but in Gary, IN the time zone swings easterly to keep Gary in Central time so it stays with Chicago's time. This is important because Gary is a bedroom community to the Windy city and things like bus and rail schedules would get screwy if the time zone stayed at the state line. Other examples include western panhandle of Florida, Eastern Oregon (which is actually in Mountain time not pacific) and eastern Tennessee which is Eastern and not Central time.

    • @SilverWave64
      @SilverWave64 10 лет назад +4

      Justin Poland Ah, that makes sense! So it's the same reason why we switch the clock forward and backwards in the night...to avoid problems with public transport! :)

    • @AprilLVideos
      @AprilLVideos 10 лет назад +5

      it would actually cause some more oddities. for example, i live in the western part of michigan's upper peninsula, and ideally, i would live in the utc-6 time zone, but, due to an oddity, i live in utc-5. there are small parts of the upper peninsula that are in utc-6, but making the time zones run along state lines would just fuck up the upper peninsula's time zone even more. i think time zones should be set by longitude alone

    • @hobog
      @hobog 10 лет назад +1

      Atlanta was changed to EST because of stupid state border. Now Sunrise and dusk are late.

  • @adamarmangaming
    @adamarmangaming 6 лет назад

    Thanks for making a tame-zone video!

    • @martenkats6915
      @martenkats6915 6 лет назад

      It might sound like "tame" to Americans, but guess what, you're not the only English speakers in the world. In proper English, he did pronounce it as "time", no a sound in there!

  • @merrynchristian7404
    @merrynchristian7404 4 года назад

    These videos are sp helpful and so well written. But we all know it's the accent that really sells it. :P

  • @astrangemann262
    @astrangemann262 8 лет назад +6

    Simple. Have the nations closer to the equator not use DST and the nations further away from the equator use DST. 😉

  • @Gab8riel
    @Gab8riel 8 лет назад +221

    Didnt the new millenium begin on 2001?

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  8 лет назад +166

      +Gabriel Rodriguez Technically, yes. But let's be honest, who was celebrating the new millennium on the 1st of January, 2001? Nobody.

    • @Gab8riel
      @Gab8riel 8 лет назад +42

      Famfly There is no year 0

    • @Dixio
      @Dixio 8 лет назад +1

      +Famfly Wait, I'm confused now, so today is the 14th of December 2015, when 2016 comes, will we have completed the 2015th year or the 2016th year? When you have say your 20th birthday, that means you have completed your 20th year of life, and, then, on the next day you are on the first day of your 21st year of life, so even if you say that you are 20 years old, you are actually in your 21st year. So are we in 2016?

    • @Gab8riel
      @Gab8riel 8 лет назад +27

      ***** 2015th year, because the first year was year one, so year 2015 is 2015th year.

    • @HunterShows
      @HunterShows 8 лет назад +5

      +Gabriel Rodriguez No, the first millenium was one year short. :) They generally didn't use our dates before 1000 anyway.

  • @anniejones3634
    @anniejones3634 6 лет назад +10

    Why is everybody hating on his accent? When I first found this channel, all of the topics looked really interesting, but when I clicked, I had no idea where the accent was from. He was hard to understand at first, but just watch more of his videos! All these comments about 'tame zones' and 'the laen islands' are unnecessary. You know what he's saying, so just try to enjoy the video. I've watched all of them so many times that I barely notice his accent. It's easy to understand after a while. Just stop being haters and ignore the way he sounds? It's not that hard.

    • @MrJaw0214
      @MrJaw0214 5 лет назад +2

      You're absolutely right. They are just simple and close-minded

    • @svw1978
      @svw1978 5 лет назад +1

      Omdat hij vreselijk praat

  • @Pdasilva0324
    @Pdasilva0324 5 лет назад +1

    From 5am-6:59am Eastern Standard Time (N. America between early November and early March), there are 3 different dates observed in the world. That always kinda fascinates me more than it should.