This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 6 Strange Time Zone Disputes. Time zones throughout the world.

True Confessions (Again): I was a very logical but somewhat naive kid. The naivete lasted into my teenagery but this situation occurred when I was much younger. I’m certain I must have learned the ...

In order to keep time accurately, we have always had to set our clocks by the ticks of a better one. Until the 1950s, the best were those set by astronomers based on the position of the sun in the sky ...

As Ramadan starts, so does a giant clock in the holy city of Mecca, an intended challenger to Big Ben and Greenwich Mean Time. When construction is completed, it will be the largest clock in the world ...

An update issued on August 26 explained: "The autumn equinox signals the point when the Northern Hemisphere begins to tilt ...

Rolex may have established itself as the definitive GMT, but it was actually Longines that invented the first dual-timezone wristwatch a century ago. The Zulu Time was introduced in 1925 as a tool ...