What time is it on the north pole

Question

What time is it on the north pole

Answer 1

Right now it's daytime.

Technically, all times zones converge at the poles, so at the North Pole you can pick any of the 24 time zones and be correct.  Without going into specifics about how time zones are determined, suffice it to say all the rules that are used to determine time zone won't work at the poles, which is why it is "every time" there all the time.

Anyway, if you were standing at the north pole (or the south pole), the sun would rise and set only once each year.  When the sun is up, it appears to just circle the sky around and around.  Therefore, it's always noon, in some way or another.  Thus the only real "time" there is "daytime" or "nighttime".

So, people who go there use GMT (a world standard), or the time of their home country (what they're used to), or the time of the nearest land (logistical operations).  For example, at the Amundsen-Scott base at the south pole (operated by the United States), they keep the same time as New Zealand since all the airplanes that bring them supplies fly into and out of New Zealand.

There's no permanent base at the North Pole, so it doesn't really matter there.

Answer 2

Time to start shopping for winter clothes

Answer 3

The same as Alaska..

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zo...

Answer 4

God that's a good question. You could go around every time zone in a few strides

Answer 5

Since it is where all time zones converge, they use Greenwich Mean Time

Answer 6

Timezones are assigned to match the sun's position in the sky.  This is impossible at the North (and South) Pole where there is 6 months of daylight and 6 months of nighttime.  At the North Pole, sunrise occurs just before the vernal equinox, around March 19; "noon" (the sun's highest point) occurs at the summer solstice, around June 21; and sunset occurs just after the autumnal equinox, around September 24.

Since there is no permanent human presence at the North Pole, it hasn't been assigned a time zone.  People often assign GMT since it is convenient or, occasionally, the time zone of the expedition's home country.