As there is a time difference between South Africa and Australia, someone living in South Africa who wants to watch a televised cricket match in Australia will have to get up very early in the morning. A match in Sydney (Australia) may start at 11:00 Sydney time, but in South […]

Universal Standard Time (UST) is the sun time on the Greenwich Meridian. Countries work out their Standard Time relative to the position of their longitude west or east of the Greenwich Meridian. As South Africa takes its time from 30˚ East of Greenwich and therefore two hours ahead of UST, […]

The International Date Line (Date Line) is one of the strangest aspects of a study of time zones. Although it follows the general course along the 180O Line of Longitude, it does not run through any country, but runs only through the ocean in that area. As it avoids passing […]