What is the current time at the north pole??

Question

What is the current time at the north pole??

Answer 1

It is presently *now* at the north pole.

When were you expecting it to be? Some other time?

Just because your clock's hour hand is broken there, that don't mean nothin' for the physics of the place. Choose some time zone as a convention and run with it.

Answer 2

Time is related to the position of the sun over the Earth and to the position of the observer. Because any direction from the North Pole is south, the sun is always in the south and it is always the same time at the Pole. But what time? The I International Date Line runs through the North Pole, leaving it between one date and the next. In other words, it is always midnight at the North Pole.

Answer 3

time for you to get a watch hahaha

Answer 4

What time do you want it to be?  

All of the time zones intersect there.  So it can be 4:02, 5:02, .....

Answer 5

Time zones are determined by lines of longitude, so the system falls apart where the lines meet at the poles. More importantly, the poles don't experience daytime and nighttime the way the rest of the planet does. Each pole gets six months of daylight and six months of darkness -- which makes for one really long day.

Both the North and South Poles officially use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time. This time zone is based on highly precise atomic clocks kept at various world laboratories.

UTC is mostly used for scientific observations. For example, the North Pole web cam run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stamps its pictures with UTC numbers. However, people who work at or near the poles don't really live by UTC -- they often use the time zones of their nearest coworkers.

The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean and doesn't have a permanent outpost. The nearest camps appear to use the time zone of Moscow, Russia.

The South Pole is on the Antarctic continent, and it's home to the Amundsen-Scott Station. The scientists and support staff who live there use the time zone of Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Answer 6

WOW...what a good question!  Maybe time stands still when you are on the tippy top of the world.

Answer 7

Trick question.

Time of day is undefined at either pole.