About Time: Nepal's 45-minute difference

Theoretically, the world should be divided into 24 equal time zones, in which each zone differs from the last by one hour. But as the years have passed, the world has turned into a much more complicated place.

Time zones are now much more irregular and sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected as they are by political, geographical and social changes in the real world.

Add to that arguments over daylight saving, and you have a subject that has been the cause of furious debate around the world.

Nepal is unusual in that it differs from GMT by a 45-minute increment - unlike other countries which are an hour or sometimes half an hour apart.

But as Joanna Jolly explains, that isn't the only interesting thing about the way Nepalis use and measure time.