[Lifestyle] What time is it now? This is how the time calculation is different in some countries of the world

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The way residents of some countries determine the time and read the clock varies, and this is not limited to the two most po[CENSORED]r ways to determine the time, by dividing the 24 hours of the day into 12 hours in the morning (AM) and 12 hours in the evening (PM), or the other method after the whole 24 hours without dividing it hours Morning and evening.

 

Zanzibar .. the counting starts at 6 am
In the globally followed method in which we determine the time, the day starts at 12 midnight, but in the islands of Zanzibar there is a difference of 6 hours from the world time, as the first hours of the day in Swahili time start at 6 am, and here we do not refer to the time difference in the region Different time on the map, but a difference of 6 hours at the beginning of the day.

for example; When it is nine in the morning in the countries of the world, the residents of Zanzibar read it as three in the morning, because the day in Swahili time started only 3 hours ago, and not earlier than 9 hours as is customary.

Compared to the common universal time, the day begins in Zanzibar in the late hours approaching the evening, as indicated by the tourist site of the islands "We Are Zanzibar", as the residents of Zanzibar and some East African countries such as Kenya and Ethiopia count 12 hours during the day and the same at night as the world time However, the day begins at 6 am instead of 12 midnight, as is the case globally. This method of counting the hours in Tanzania, to which the islands belong, is called “Swahili time”, and it is known in Ethiopia as “Ethiopian time”.

Surprisingly, islanders' clocks can be very ordinary, and the arrow points to the universal time we all know, but Zanzibarians love the math by adding 6 hours to the number on the clock, to tell the clock their way.

 

 

The method of calculating the different time in some countries is not official, but it is po[CENSORED]r at the po[CENSORED]r level (pixels)
Thailand.. 6 hours a day divided into 4 times
In Thailand, the po[CENSORED]tion counts today from one to six o'clock only for 4 times a day, instead of from one o'clock to 12 o'clock twice a day, or to 24 o'clock. This means that there is no seven or eight, but the counting starts from One to six o'clock again.

Although this time is commonly used, but it is unofficial, and in official use, the hours are remembered from one o'clock to 24 o'clock, and this method of division seems to be derived from the onomatopoeia of the sounds of a bell or a drum that were used to keep time during the day or night in the past. The bell during the day, the drum at night, according to a report on the language website Duolingo.

 

Russia.. focus on the next hour
In Russian culture, for example, the focus is on the next hour and not the current, for example, when it is 01.20, you often say the hour is twenty-one minutes, but the Russians say that the hour is “20 minutes from the second hour”, meaning that we are on our way to reach the second hour, and the first 20 minutes have passed to reach it.

But usually in Arab culture and in other countries such as Spain, we focus on the next hour, but when we approach it, for example, 01.20 is twenty-one minutes, but when it is 01.40, we say that it is two and twenty minutes.

Divide the day into morning and evening hours
To tell time in most Western cultures it is divided into 12 morning (AM) and 12 evening (PM) hours, as well as in Arab culture, but we can use 'afternoon' or 'afternoon' for the daylight hours that count as evening (PM) in Western culture. , but we count the hours of the day into two periods as well, that is, every 12 hours.

Also, in languages and cultures such as Spanish, words such as "afternoon", "evening" and "night" can be used, meaning the hours of bedtime, and "early morning", which means the hours after midnight.

In ancient civilizations, a clock was not made up of 60 minutes at all (pixels).
Ancient Rome.. The length of the clock varies according to the seasons
In ancient civilizations, there were different ways of telling time as well. In ancient Rome, the day was divided into 24 hours, but in a different way from the current counting method. The day was 12 hours of the day, and 12 hours of night, but those hours were of varying length. And the palace in the sense that it does not consist of 60 minutes at all. In the summer, the hour of the day was longer than the night, and it was the opposite in the winter, as indicated by the historical site "History Extra".

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