2016-02-21 (Sunday)


What did you learn in School today ?'s avatarWhat did you learn in School today?

Today, I learned once more that:

One of the most abstract things in our world is also something that we rely on the most. I am thinking about the so-called fourth dimension, time. Due to the earth’s rotation around its own axis, the world has been divided into 24 time zones, with the meridian that crosses the Greenwich observatory in England used as a starting point for the division, and thus establishing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), nowadays mostly named Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Due to its subcontinental size, Brazil has four different time zones, going from West to East, and stating its difference in relation to the official Brazilian time, in the Federal capital of Brasília. The following times apply as standard time:

  • Brasília time – 2 h (UTC-5 h): State of Acre, and the Southwestern part of the state of Amazonas. The proportion of people living here is only 0,5…

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Director of Manchester School of Samba at http://www.sambaman.org.uk
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