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What is the time at the south and the North Pole?

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What is the time at the south and the North Pole?

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The official time at both poles is GMT, but that isn’t what is always observed. People usually either use their own times, or the times from where they came previously, which is often New Zealand, since most flights to Antarctica go through there. “What time is it at the North and South Pole? Since lines of longitude converge at the North and South Pole, it’s almost impossible (and very impractical) to determine which time zone you’re in based on the longitude. Therefore, researchers in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the earth usually use the time zone associated with their research stations. For example, since nearly all flights to Antarctica and the South Pole are from New Zealand, New Zealand time is the most commonly used time zone in Antarctica.” And who could be a better source than Santa? “Here at the North Pole we use GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) a.k.a. UCT (Coordinated Universal Time), however the SantaClaus.com server uses United States Eastern time. So, the server time is

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