Question

Give geographical reasons

Canada has 6 different standard times

Answer 1

The size of the country is so big that it spans 90 degree of longitude. And hence, there are six different time zones in Canada.

They are referred to as Eastern Daylight Time. They are,

• Newfoundland Daylight Time  (GMT-2:30)
• Atlantic Daylight Time  (GMT-3)
• Central Daylight Time  (GMT-5)
• Central Standard Time  (GMT-6)
• Mountain Daylight Time  (GMT-6)
• Pacific Daylight Time  (GMT-7)

Reasons:

• The size of the country.
• The longitudinal extent.
• For better understanding of time across the country.

Answer 2

Due to the length of the country, canada has coastline of 243,042 km hence time is divided into 6 standards.

Explanation:

• The country of Canada is divided into the six-time zones starting from the Newfoundland the pacific west coast.

• The proposed dividing the time one was given by the Scottish railway engineer who used the 24-hour clock and later on it became widely used for transport, parking, and data transmission.

• The pacific time zone followed UTC - 8.00 and pacific daylight saving time of UTC - 7.00. The mountain time zone followed UTC - 7.00 and DTS of UTC - 6.00. For central time zone UTC - 6.00 and DTS of UTC - 5.00 and other similar followed.

• Due to the daylight time saving that is observed in 10 providence as Alberta, the British Columbia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland, Ontario and Labrador,

• The Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, and three territories of Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon.

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