Sunday 26 July 2015

One india, one time !

India Time Zone (UTC+05:30)
                 
Everyone has heard that joke:Yo' Mama is so fat, she wears a watch on each arm -- one for each time zone she's in.Well, it was abt to describe hefty nature of her by today I am going to reveal you that why
IST actually meaning "Indian Stretchable Time." Everything from climate to social structures have been blamed for why a lack of punctuality seems as essential to the Indian experience as butter chicken. But there is one thing that might help explain the fluid way Indians choose to experience time: How does one country with 3,287,264 sq mtr of area in length adhere to just a single time zone?
The sun appears in North-east India much before dawn breaks in Western India and ends up extending or shortening the work day, often in uncomfortable ways. It's not as if the issue of different time zones in the country hasn't come up before but it has never gained much traction for the government to consider it seriously. The debate flared up once again last year when Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi pitched for a new time zone for the state by moving all clocks in the region 60 minutes ahead of the IST arguing that an early daybreak in the northeast would increase productivity and help in saving time.
According to him they need a local time for Assam and the other northeastern states which will be ahead of the Indian Standard Time  by at least an hour to 90 minutes because they have an early daybreak in the northeast compared to other parts of India and if they have a separate time zone then it would undoubtedly be very productive for all of them and would also help in saving energy. Though much wasn't achieved from Gogoi's campaign, the debate continues to turn up. And this below map illustrates just why that happens. Pretty much the only large country that is entirely recognisable in this map, which divides the world up by timezones, is India. The same also applies to China, which also uses just one time zone for a massive landmass.

What would happen if India was divided into two time zones? :For example,

There are people in ahmedabad who start working at 8 am i.e. one hour after sunrise
There are people in Kolkata who start working at 8 am I.e. two hour after sunrise.

Here timeline is same. Time is same. But the synchronisation of time with sun will not be present. Talking in vague sense.

People in western side might wake up to darkness.while people in eastern side wake up to proper sunlight.
Same thing can be observed in evening.

Even though there's not much hope in the near future of having more than one time-zone in India, it's always an interesting comparison with the rest of the world.
At last I can thank god that India has only one time zone..else politician will start dividing people based on time zone also 

2 comments:

  1. Dear Raj Raval, I just saw your post in FB "I am incredibly happy to finally have a personal website and blog up and running...." Hence visited your Blog. Good to see your nice write-up on Time and Time Sense in India. best wishes... Hariharan PV

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thank you very much sir! Your words mean to me a lot.I really appreciate your kind words.

    ReplyDelete