In a world divided by time zones, Art Berry, a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, attempts to sabotage the Greenwich Mean Tribe in order to advance his people, and finds that he must decide between happiness and intelligence.
Explains the origin of standard time and the international system of time zones, and discusses Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time, time zones in the United States, daylight savings time, and the cases of India and Australia.
Provides information about travel science; including time zones, the Coriolis effect, jet lag, and space travel. Gardner, a former science teacher, presents the scientific method and gives ideas for hands on science experiments.
Explains how to tell time and the concept of time zones through a story in which Jared wakes up in San Francisco at six o'clock in the morning while children in other parts of the world are doing activities such as going to school or eating dinner.
