I like to "kill two birds with one stone." George Washington was born in 1732? Who cares. The square root of 3 is about 1.7320. Is that going to be on the test? But once you note that George Washington's birth year WAS the square-root of 3, who could ever forget either fact?
If I'm calling someone in another country, I'd like to know if I'm waking them up or not. And it's nice to have at least a vague grasp of the world map. Kill two birds with one stone just by memorizing a list of 25 places.
| 24:00 Samoa 172° W | 23:00 Auckland 175° E | 22:00 Vanuata 167° E | 21:00 Sydney 151° E | 20:00 Osaka 135° E | ||||||||||
| 19:00 Manila 121° E | 18:00 Hanoi 106° E | 17:00 [16:30] Omsk [Calcutta] 73° E [88°] | 16:00 Lahore 74° E | 15:00 Muscat 58° E | ||||||||||
| 14:00 Baghdad 44° E | 13:00 Kiev 31° E | 12:00 Prague 14° E | 11:00 London 0° | 10:00 [11:00] Cape Verde [Dakar] 23° W [17°] 9:00 | So. Sandwich I. 37° W 8:00 | Rio de Janeiro 43° W 7:00 [8:00] | Caracas [Buenos Aires] 67° W [58°] 6:00 | New York 74° W 5:00 | Chicago 88° W 4:00 | Denver 105° W 3:00 | Los Angeles 118° W 2:00 | Juneau 134° W 1:00 | Hilo 155° W 0:00 [2:00] | Midway [Nome] 177° W [165°] |
I've tried to choose a city or small country that is BOTH near appropriate longitude line AND actually observes the designated time zone (at least in winter time). In some cases a city closer to the desired longitude but not in the target timezone is shown in brackets.