Countdown to April 20
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“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.” — Eric Hoffer
When is it going to be 4:20?
| Next | Location | Local Time |
|---|---|---|
| 00h 28m | Broken Hill, UTC +9.5 | 03:53pm |
| 00h 58m | Dili, Jayapura, Pyongyang, Seoul, Tokyo, Palau, UTC +9 | 03:23pm |
| 01h 13m | Western Australia, Eucla, UTC +8.75 | 03:08pm |
| 01h 58m | Casey, Choibalsan, Hong Kong, Kuching, Shanghai, Taipei, Perth, UTC +8 | 02:23pm |
| 02h 58m | Davis, Bangkik, Barnaul, Jakarta, Novosibirsk, Christmas, UTC +7 | 01:23pm |
| 03h 28m | Yangon, Cocos, Myanmar, UTC +6.5 | 12:53pm |
| 03h 58m | Bishkek, Dhaka, Urumqi, Chagos, UTC +6 | 12:23pm |
| 04h 13m | Nepal, UTC +5.75 | 12:08pm |
| 04h 28m | Mumbai, Colombo, UTC +5.5 | 11:53am |
| 04h 58m | Aqtau, Dushanbe, Oral, Samarkand, Yekaterinburg, Maldives, UTC +5 | 11:23am |
| 05h 28m | Kabul, UTC +4.5 | 10:53am |
| 05h 58m | Baku, Dubai, Yerevan, Samara, Volgograd, Mahe, UTC +4 | 10:23am |
| 06h 28m | Tehran, UTC +3.5 | 09:53am |
| 06h 58m | Ababa, Asmara, Juba, Mogadishu, Nairobi, Kuwait, Istanbul, Moscow, Mayotte, UTC +3 | 09:23am |
| 07h 58m | Blantyre, Cairo, Johannesburg, Kusaka, Tripoli, Beirut, Gaza, Jerusalem, Kiev, UTC +2 | 08:23am |
| 08h 58m | Bangui, Ceuta, Lagos, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, UTC +1 | 07:23am |
| 09h 58m | London, Lisbon, Reykjavik, Canary, Monrovia, Accra, UTC +0 | 06:23am |
| 10h 58m | Cape Verde, Greenland, Azores Islands, UTC -1 | 05:23am |
| 11h 58m | Fernando de Noronha, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, UTC -2 | 04:23am |
| 12h 58m | Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Saint Pierre, Suriname, Falkland Islands, Uruguay, UTC -3 | 03:23am |
| 13h 28m | St. Johns, Newfoundland, Labrador, UTC -3.5 | 02:53am |
| 13h 58m | Santiago, Santo Domingo, Manaus, Caracas, La Paz, Halifax, New Brunswick, Puerto Rico, UTC -4 | 02:23am |
| 14h 58m | New York, Toronto, Havana, Lima, Bogota, Kingston, UTC -5 | 01:23am |
| 15h 58m | Mexico City, Chicago, Guatemala City, Tegucigalpa, Minnipeg, San Jose, San Salvador, UTC -6 | 12:23am |
| 16h 58m | Phoenix, Calgary, Ciudad Juarez, Alberta, Las Vegas, El Paso, Baja, British Columbia, UTC -7 | 11:23pm |
| 17h 58m | Los Angeles, Vancouver, Tijuana, San Francisco, Seattle, UTC -8 | 10:23pm |
| 18h 58m | Alaska, Gambier Islands, UTC -9 | 09:23pm |
| 19h 28m | French Polynesia, Marquesas Islands, UTC -9.5 | 08:53pm |
| 19h 58m | Honolulu, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Aleutian Islands, UTC -10 | 08:23pm |
| 20h 58m | Phoenix Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, UTC +13 | 07:23pm |
| 20h 58m | American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Niue, UTC -11 | 07:23pm |
| 21h 13m | Chantham Islands, UTC +12.75 | 07:08pm |
| 21h 58m | Wallis, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Wake Island, UTC +12 | 06:23pm |
| 21h 58m | Baker Island, Howland Island, UTC -12 | 06:23pm |
| 22h 58m | Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Magadan, Vanuatu, UTC +11 | 05:23pm |
| 23h 28m | Lord Howe Island, UTC +10.5 | 04:53pm |
| 23h 58m | Vladivostok, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Guam, Port Moresby, Saipan, UTC +10 | 04:23pm |
Historical Events on 4/20
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2023 – SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time. It explodes four minutes into flight.2021 – State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.
2020 – For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
2015 – Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing at least 193 people and injuring thousands.
2012 – One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2007 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips barricades himself with a handgun in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2004 - The Nicoll Highway in Singapore collapsed, killing four workers.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 14 people and injure 23 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
1972 – Apollo program: Apollo 16 Lunar Module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.
1968 – South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near J.G. Strijdom Airport in South West Africa (now Hosea Kutako International Airport in Namibia), killing 123 people.
1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1949 – Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.
1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1945 – World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
1876 – The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
1861 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.
1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1828 – René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive.
1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1800 – The Septinsular Republic is established.
1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
Notable Births & Deaths on 4/20
Hugo Gatti (d. 2025) • Antonio Cantafora (d. 2024) • Andrew Davis (d. 2024) • Roman Gabriel (d. 2024) • Lourdes Portillo (d. 2024) • Gavin Millar (d. 2022) • Idriss Déby (d. 2021) • Monte Hellman (d. 2021) • Les McKeown (d. 2021) • Avicii (d. 2018) • Victoria Wood (d. 2016) • Neville Wran (d. 2014) • Bert Weedon (d. 2012) • Tim Hetherington (d. 2011) • Dorothy Height (d. 2010) • Monica Lovinescu (d. 2008) • Andrew Hill (d. 2007) • Michael Fu Tieshan (d. 2007) • Fumio Niwa (d. 2005) • Tallyn Da Silva (b. 2005) • Lizzy Mercier Descloux (d. 2004) • Bernard Katz (d. 2003) • Alan Dale (d. 2002) • Giuseppe Sinopoli (d. 2001) • Rick Rude (d. 1999) • Rachel Scott (d. 1999) • Cassie Bernall (d. 1999) • Alexander Zverev (b. 1997) • Trần Văn Trà (d. 1996) • Milovan Đilas (d. 1995) • Cantinflas (d. 1993) • Marjorie Gestring (d. 1992) • Benny Hill (d. 1992) • Steve Marriott (d. 1991) • Don Siegel (d. 1991) • Luke Kuechly (b. 1991) • Jason Behrendorff (b. 1990) • Vannesa Rosales (b. 1989) • Brandon Belt (b. 1988) • Jorge Pinto (b. 1987) • Sibte Hassan (d. 1986) • Miranda Kerr (b. 1983) • Archibald MacLeish (d. 1982) • M. Canagaratnam (d. 1980) • Emma Husar (b. 1980) • Carl Greenidge (b. 1978) • Killer Mike (b. 1975) • Julie Powell (b. 1973) • Carmen Electra (b. 1972) • Stephen Marley (b. 1972) • Allan Houston (b. 1971) • Shemar Moore (b. 1970) • Vjekoslav Luburić (d. 1969) • Felix Baumgartner (b. 1969) • Will Hodgman (b. 1969) • Rudolph Dirks (d. 1968) • Julia Morris (b. 1968) • Léo-Paul Desrosiers (d. 1967) • Mike Portnoy (b. 1967) • David Chalmers (b. 1966) • David Filo (b. 1966) • Kostis Chatzidakis (b. 1965) • Léa Fazer (b. 1965) • Mark Mallia (b. 1965) • John Carney (b. 1964) • Crispin Glover (b. 1964) • Andy Serkis (b. 1964) • Rosalynn Sumners (b. 1964) • Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) • Don Mattingly (b. 1961) • Konstantin Lavronenko (b. 1961) • Debbie Flintoff-King (b. 1960) • Perry Haddock (b. 1959) • Viacheslav Fetisov (b. 1958) • Beatrice Ask (b. 1956) • Peter Chelsom (b. 1956) • Kakha Bendukidze (b. 1956) • Donald Pettit (b. 1955) • Svante Pääbo (b. 1955) • Sebastian Faulks (b. 1953) • James Chance (b. 1953) • Louka Katseli (b. 1952) • Ivanoe Bonomi (d. 1951) • Luther Vandross (b. 1951) • Alexander Lebed (b. 1950) • N. Chandrababu Naidu (b. 1950) • Veronica Cartwright (b. 1949) • Toller Cranston (b. 1949) • Massimo D'Alema (b. 1949) • Jessica Lange (b. 1949) • Matthias Kuhle (b. 1948) • Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947) • Rita Dionne-Marsolais (b. 1947) • Viktor Suvorov (b. 1947) • Niko Lekishvili (b. 1947) • Mae Busch (d. 1946) • Sandro Chia (b. 1946) • Erwin Bumke (d. 1945) • Michael Brandon (b. 1945) • Olga Karlatos (b. 1945) • Thein Sein (b. 1945) • Naftali Temu (b. 1945) • Steve Spurrier (b. 1945) • Elmer Gedeon (d. 1944) • Toivo Aare (b. 1944) • Alan Beith (b. 1943) • John Eliot Gardiner (b. 1943) • Jüri Jaakson (d. 1942) • Ryan O'Neal (b. 1941) • James Gammon (b. 1940) • Peter S. 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The famous phrase "it's five o'clock somewhere" means that even though it may not be five o'clock in your local time zone, odds are it must be in another part of the world. The end of the work day for a traditional "nine-to-five" worker is 5 p.m. and its typical to see the start of 'Happy-Hour' at most restaurants and bars around this time.
People generally use this phrase to justify drinking at any time of day, given that somewhere in the world it's 5:00 p.m. In countercultures throughout the world, 4:20 p.m. is the socially accepted time where people gather for cannabis-oriented celebrations.
In addition to the occurrence of 4:20p.m. each day, April 20 is observed around the world each year as a time to gather together and celebrate cannabis. The day has become a popular time to advocate for liberalization and legalization through concerts, festivals and protest in civil disobedience.
This website makes it easy to know when its 4:20 by tracking over 30 time zones around the world in real-time. We also have a live countdown that monitors the days leading up to April 20 in your local timezone.
While its true that most time zones around the world differ from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a number of full hours, there are also several time zones with both 30-minute and 45-minute hourly offsets. Furthermore, regions that use Daylight Saving Time (DST) change time zones during the DST period and the areas that don't use DST remain on their standard time all year, this results in various 4:20's throughout the day depending on the time of the year. Plus, it was fun to make!
According to Stoner legend, the roots of the term "four-twenty" trace back to Marin County, California in the early 1970's. Five high school students from San Rafael High School would regularly meet after class at 4:20 p.m. to do what stoners do.
They chose that specific time and a specific place, near a statue of chemist Louis Paseur, to hang out and eventually they started using the phrase "4:20 Louis" around each other as code for a cannabis meetup. Details are sketchy, but as the story goes, one of the students (Dave Reddix) eventually went on to become a roadie for the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, where the phrase became popularized among followers of the band and started to spread.
In the days since, the time 4:20pm, number 420, and the calendar date April 20 (4/20) have become internationally recognized as counterculture symbols among smokers and non-smokers alike. As cannabis remains illegal in many countries, celebrations are held around the world on April 20 advocating for its decriminalization and legalization.
In cannabis culture, the number 710 is often associated with concentrates and oils, rather than the more commonly known 420 which is associated with general cannabis consumption.
When the number 710 is turned upside down, it spells "OIL" - a reference to cannabis concentrates like hash oil, wax, shatter, and other potent extracts. As a result, July 10th (7/10) has become a sort of "dabbing holiday" where enthusiasts celebrate and consume cannabis concentrates.
710 is a more recent addition to cannabis culture compared to 420, and its popularity has been growing in recent years alongside the increasing popularity of dabbing and concentrate consumption.
Unlike 420, which has more concrete historical roots in a specific group of high school friends in the 1970s, the origins of 710 seem to be less centralized and more a product of modern cannabis culture and the digital age.
The first instances of the 710 reference appeared on online forums and social media platforms dedicated to cannabis concentrates, such as wax, shatter, and oils. As with many trends in internet culture, it likely spread organically through online communities and gained traction over time.
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