Assignment for Understanding Time Zones:

You are the travel coordinator for the National Geographic Society!  Your job is to make travel arrangements for the photographers and writers of the magazine.  To do a good job, you must know the times everywhere in the world to book flights and hotels for these people. Success depends on your understanding how time zones work.

Please visit the sites listed below and write the definitions you find in your own words on the sheet “Understanding Time Zones”.  Good luck!

Daylight Savings Time

Two maps of Canada showing summer and winter times plus all zones

http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php

Another part of the site web clocks showing times in each zone

http://time5.nrc.ca/webclock_e.shtml

Prime Meridian info for Greenwich, England

http://www.greenwich-guide.org.uk/meridian.htm

Prime Meridian  of the World

http://wwp.greenwichmeridian.com/

Best One – World Time Zone Map and Alternative Map with Clocks

http://www.world-time.co.uk/index1.html

World Time Zone Map (with time grid in letters)

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/world_tzones.html

International Date Line

http://www.goals.com/sailscin/dateline.htm

Finding local times around the world

http://times.clari.net.au/index.html

Universal Time

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/UT.html

Revision Date 10/12/2006