Earth rotates on its polar axis once every 23.9345 hrs. As an oblate sphere measuring a circumferential 360°, Earth rotates through almost 15 angular degrees per hour. Local noon occurs when, on the hypothetical celestial sphere, the Sun is at...

As the earth rotates on its axis from west to east, night and day arrive at different parts of the earth at different times. Until the late 1800s, every town, county, or isolated group of islands observed its own time and set clocks according to the...

A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC (see also...

Local TV stations broadcast shows from three different categories: local origination, syndication, and network affiliate content. Most people recognize the local origination stuff when they see it. It consists mainly local news, weather, and sports, along local talk shows and the occasional community-oriented special program.However,...

After a maddening two years in which Indiana residents saw the official time shift this way and that, it looks like the pendulum is finally about to stop swinging.The U.S. Department of Transportation, which regulates time zones, announced Thursday that five southwestern Indiana counties will...

While most U.S. clocks spring forward one hour on Sunday, Pulaski County will do double time when it moves the courthouse clock ahead not one, but two hours for daylight-saving time.Confusing as it might seem, folks in this northwestern Indiana county hope the move actually...

Florida goalie Tomas Vokoun stopped 33 shots and recorded his 24th career shutout and the Panthers earned a 1-0 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday.Stephen Weiss scored the lone goal of the game at 1:10 of the second period.Vokoun improved to 7-0 against...