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Is Australia one day ahead or behind the United States? |
Travel Info Is Australia one day ahead or behind the United States? Travel Tips Ahead...in every way! Flying from the east coast of Australia (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne) or from New Zealand to the USA (Los Angeles) can be a surreal experience, particularly when you leave Australia almost the same time as you arrive in the US! (That is because flights this way cross the international date line). I am again flying to the US this year, leaving at 12pm from Melbourne and arriving in Los Angeles at 12.40pm the SAME day! :) Others Ausie is a day ahead. The earth rotates so it seems the sun moves from east to west. They're day begins before ours starts, and ends before ours. Ahead. See the website below to see time anywhere in the world. http://www.worldtimezone.com/ a day ahead Australia is ahead of the USA. So the USA are behind this time. Time is measured from 0掳 longitude which passes through Greenwich in London and is often called the Greenwich Meridian. The time on this meridian is called Greenwich Mean Time. More recently, the time measurement has been refined and GMT is now UTC - Universal Coordinated Time. I know the initials don't match but they don't in French either, it is a compromise. Anywhere to the east of 0掳 is ahead of UTC while anywhere west of the line is behind UTC. This goes as far as the International Date Line at approximately 180掳. Immediately to the east of the date line, the time is the same as on the western side of the line but 24 hours earlier. The USA has a number of time zones from the east to western Alaska, all of these are west of 0掳 and are at least 5 hours behind UTC. Australia also has a number of time zones and these are 8 to 10 hours ahead of UTC. Thus depending on where you are in the USA or Australia, Australia is at least 13 hours ahead of you and could be 20 hours. |
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