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Today we learned about time zones. We looked at maps that showed the different time zones. The main center of time zone is the Prime meridian that is where UTC is and GMT. UTC is coordinated universal time. It is a 0 degrees longitude and is the center of the time zones, anything to the left is subtracting and hour and anything to the right is adding an hour. GMT and UTC are the same but GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time. Daylight Savings is when we change the clock and hour ahead or behind to accommodate for the amount of sunlight we have. Standard Deviation is the + or - an area is form UTC or the Prime Meridian for instance if you move one time zone over it can be +1 hour. Every 15 degrees is another time zone so every time zone away from UTC they add another hour.

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