Living on a more-or-less spherical planet as we do, if we didn’t have time zones we’d have quite a bit of confusion. As an international traveler, you’d have to know that in the destination you’re ...

Today, it’s standard to have multiple time zones around the world. But the history of how we got to this point has been fraught with a number of strong disagreements over the years—and some disputes ...

From half-hour offsets to countries that ignore geography altogether, these places prove the world’s clocks don’t always follow the rules. The Prime Meridian of the world, established in Greenwich in ...