Ok, just made an account here and didn't notice a comprehensice explanation in the FAQ for time zones, and can see no possible way for them to occur without the earth being round, as if the world IS flat, then how could half of the world be in shadow and the other in light?
Is there a huge, opaque sheet over half of the world?
This is also flawed, as the 'sheet' would need to move like so: (o being light, I being shade)
From this at say, midnight GMT:
oooooooooooooooooooooIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
oooooooooooooooooooooIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
oooooooooooooooooooooIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
To this at say, 8 AM GMT:
IIIIIIIIoooooooooooooooooooooIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIoooooooooooooooooooooIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIoooooooooooooooooooooIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
How could this POSSIBLY happen with no round earth, unless the 'sheet' could dematerialise and rematerialise, allowing this shift to occur.
If you have a reasonable explaination I am very willing to hear it, but I will disregard 'materialisation' as there is no sound proof for that yet.
So, an explaination?