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Remember to Fall Back to Standard Time

Nov 6th 2010 – 4:34PM

WASHINGTON (Nov. 6) -- It's time to reclaim that hour of sleep you lost last spring. That's right, the clocks are turned back in most of the country. The majority of folks will do the switch before hitting the sack Saturday night, even though the change doesn't become official until 2 a.m. Sunday local time. And, of...

Saudis Want 'Mecca Time' to Replace GMT

By Lauren FrayerAug 11th 2010 – 7:47AM
Saudi Press Agency / AP

Saudi Press Agency / AP

(Aug. 11) -- For centuries, an astronomy observatory in Greenwich, London -- the namesake of Greenwich Mean Time -- has been the reference point for lines of longitude, ships' navigation on the world's seas and the time zones used today. But Saudi Arabia wants to change that. It's building what it calls the largest clock...

Time zones News From the Web

  • 05/30/12 Single time zone for Indonesia opposed Source: Jakarta News stock market , which is 70 percent dominated by foreign investors?"
  • 05/30/12 Kalla: Uniting a Time Zone Is Wrong Source: tempointeractive TEMPO Interactive , Jakarta :Former Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that uniting time zones in Indonesia is wrong and will sacrifice the fates of 200 million Indonesians.
  • 05/18/12 SBY Agrees to Time Zone Integration Source: tempointeractive TEMPO Interactive , Jakarta :President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has agreed to the proposal for time zone integration. �
  • 09/21/11 Time to zone in Source: The Charleston Gazette - Charleston WV Geno Smith and Dana Holgorsen would love to have the problem again.

Background on Time zones

A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.

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