Time, Feng Shui/Magnetic Fields, Eight Trigrams, Five Elements

Different directions created different times; this was also called a time difference.

For example, when dawn broke in the east, it was night in the west. When dawn broke in the west, it was night in the east. Meanwhile, places in between had other times. Simply put, when geographical latitudes differed, time was not entirely the same either.

According to what time it was where we currently were, changing locations meant another point in time; change locations again, and it changed again. The date was the same way.

People lived on a sphere, and this was also why times and dates differed between regions.

The sphere constantly rotated from west to east around its axis. This meant that at any given moment, the sun could illuminate only half the sphere—one half was daytime, while the other lay in shadow, which was night. Therefore, the whole world could not use the same time.

Otherwise, absurd situations would arise where the current noon at twelve o'clock was also the current midnight.

So, to prevent this and to standardize time, people divided the globe into 24 time zones, each differing by one hour.

Taking the Greenwich Observatory in London as the Prime Meridian—the 0° longitude line—7.5° was marked off to both the east and west, forming the Central Time Zone, or Zero Time Zone.

Moving east, one time zone was added every 15 degrees of longitude (360° / 24 = 15°): Eastern Zone One, Eastern Zone Two... all the way to Eastern Zone Twelve. Time advanced by one hour. Moving west, one time zone was subtracted every 15 degrees of longitude: Western Zone One, Western Zone Two... all the way to Western Zone Twelve. Time slowed by one hour.

Let's give an example. When it was Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Capital City,