Q96.
Consider the following countries : I. United Kingdom II. Denmark III. New Zealand IV. Australia V. Brazil How many of the above countries have more than four time zones?
Answer
C
Explanation
UK itself (mainland) uses one time zone. However, to overseas territories (like Bermuda, British Virgin Falkland Islands, Pitcairn Islands, etc.), the UK across 9 time zones. Denmark Adheres to a single time zone, European Summer Time, throught most year. Islands nad Greenland which are part of the realm have separate time zones. Faroe has one time zone and Greenland has three time zones. it has more than four time zones. Zealand has three time zones. New Zealand's two islands, North Island and South Island, both lie in same time zone. The Chatham Islands, located 860 kilometers (534 miles) east of Christchurch, a separate time zone, which is 45 minutes ahead mainland New Zealand. Tokelau, an archipelago in Pacific and a dependency of New Zealand, brings total to three time zones. an archipelago in the Pacific and a dependency New Zealand, brings the total to three time zones. are 6 time zones in Australia. Adding the 3 dependencies brings the total to 9 time mainland states and territories are divided 5 standard time zones. As Western Australia, and the Northern Territory don't use Saving Time (DST), there are only 3 DST time zones. are four standard time zones in Brazil. They are, west to east: Acre Time (ACT), Amazon Time Brasília Time (BRT), and Fernando de Noronha (FNT). Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.