it affects the living things around it because when melting ice glaciers melt all the way and add on to the body of water it was in, then it could cause the body of water that it was in to overflow onto the near by land, therefore affecting the living things around it.
The reason is because of time zones. Since they are on the opposite side of the world, they also have opposite time. 10 AM in Washington DC is 8:30 PM in Bengaluru. You get your time zone based on your latitude and longitude.
The UTC is a time zone that is followed in South America. The time zones are divided from UTC of -5 to -2 and daylight saving is used by various countries like Chile. As of 2015, the government of Uruguay has decided not to start the daylight saving time as it has a UTC /GMT of -3.
In the early 1900s, France, Spain, Great Britain, Japan, and the U.S., which claimed Pacific colonies, controlled most of the Pacific islands. Thank you