Grade 12 tourism time zone calculations pdf term 2

This video focuses on timezone calculations, which are essential for various purposes such as planning trips and communicating with people in other parts of the world. Each time zone varies by one hour, with Eastern time zones being 7 p.m., Central time zones being 6 p.m., Mountain time zones being 5 p.m., and Pacific time zones being 4 p.m.

Calculating time zones worksheet

Local time within a time zone is defined by its offset from Coordinated Universal time (UTC), the standard time of the world.

Understanding time differences is crucial for various purposes, such as planning trips and communicating with people in other parts of the world.

In this lesson, we learn about time zone lines, represented by lines of longitude, and how to calculate time between zones. We also learn about the Prime Meridian time zone.

To calculate the difference between two points, we count the number of hours between them, counting the number of time zones that we cross.

We can also draw a number line to represent all time zones and count the spaces between the two timelines.

A tip is to calculate times after 12 midday on the 24-hou

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