Our online current World time clock will help you work out what the correct time is for the time zone you are travelling to.
Current World Time...
To find out the current World time of the Country you are travelling to is very handy. You can then work out what times will be both home and abroad so you can call home without waking anyone up in the middle of the night (if you can help it). Whatever time zone you are travelling to use our online current World time clock below:
Time Zones ...
Simple select the destination you are travelling to in the drop down box for the World current time.
Over a hundred and twenty years ago everyone of the World's cities set their own local time. This time zone was set at what was noon for the sun was at its highest in the sky for that city.
Neighbouring cities set their clocks differently so this could work throughout the World. So, say it were 6:00PM in New York City , it would be 6:12PM in Boston , this is because Boston is roughly 3 degrees east of New York City.
This small difference in time zones between each neighbouring city didn't cause any problems, until that was effective railroads were built and became very popular.
It was then, in the late 1870s, that Canadian railway planner and engineer Sir Sandford Fleming first considered different time zones.
So that schedules could be standardised there was a need for a simplistic yet reliable time zone around the World as modern travel was beginning to take off. The first time zones were set and used in 1883.
The idea was popular and in 1884, at an International conference in Washington, D.C. , the world time zones were set - these are still used today. The world was divided into 24 time zones, as 24 hours in a day, with each one a long strip from North Pole to South Pole, about 15 degrees of longitude wide and about one hour difference in time.
Today, this system is still in use by most Countries around the World, with only a few places setting their clocks 15 or 30 minutes different from the official and current World time.
