It might be dumb, but I just dont get it.

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I dont understand hoe for example Majorca, is a 2 hour flight away, and they have a time difference of an hour, but Lanzarote, a 4 hour flight away, has no time difference..................someone please explain

It's all to do with time zones. The world is divided by imaginary lines.

\link{http://nist.time.gov/images/worldzones.gif\have a look here}

Time difference is determined by how far west or east you are from Greenwich. Majorca must be 2 time zones east of Greenwich whereas Lanzarotte must be more or less due south of Greenwich and therefore in the same time zone.

Get it now?

It's to do with the verticle lines on the glode (longitude I think) you can go as far south as you like in the same time zone - but travel a little way along a horizontal line (maybe latitude) and you change times

It's to do with the horizon and the way the sun comes up ....

I think??

errrrrr....................right

Actually, that's not a lot of help is it? Maybe someone with an ounce of intelligence will explain

Not a scientific response, but, I think it depends on which direction you are flying, either across the globe (crossing time zones) which will add/subtract hours or down the globe - I think, but am not 100%

time zones change according to how far east or west you go - but not according to how far north or south. So you could travel for hours north or south without changing time zone.

Visually isn't the world divided up like a chocolate orange (24 time zones) with Grenwich being 0

Ok, I think I get it, am picturing the earth and sun, and how going different directions would effect daylight, IYKWIM

Bubblerock - excellent! Think of a chocolate orange: Lanzarotte is in the same segment as us, just lower down!

I got it, so obvious now