I suppose you would just have to choose which time zone you wanted to be in, and take it from there.

Technically, if you took one step (or less) in any direction, you would be on a particular line of longitude, then it would take 24hrs 1.5 mins (approx) to get back round to the same point in space, relative to the Earth's rotation.

But as you say, as far as our 'two dimensional' method of time calculation goes, yes, you would not be 'turning' round an axis of the Earth, you would be 'spinning' in one spot.

So to tell the time you could just put a spot on the ground, off the point of the Pole, as your chosen time zone, and use that.  

(That really is one of the few curious things I have never pondered over.............lol ).

Another good one to try is standing ON the International Date Line, then skip from one side to the other yelling 'Monday! Tuesday! Monday!' etc.
I did this once to annoy a friend of mine, he thumped me after about 30 seconds! Some people really DON'T have a sense of humour Or maybe they don't like irritating plonkers.......
In answer to your question Paz, the Poles have a summer and a winter, time is relative there, as the sun is up for six months and wanders around the sky, then its dark for six months. So no idea.... But at a guess I'd say it'd be logical for everyone to use GMT.

Ozzy

Try this out...   I'm still trying to figure it out.

http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/taq.html

or maybe this one...

http://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/admin/unix/tz/antarctica/

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Technically you are rightside-up. Up and down are only a state of mind made to simplify things. Earth is in space and in space there is no up or down. The only reason that we can differ the two here on Earth is due to our own gravity which is pulling us towards the center of the planet. No matter where you are, up is still up and down is still down.

If I may add another thing. The South Pole hasn't always been the South Pole. Several times in the history of the planet, the magnetic poles have reversed. We are currently entering another reversal stage. I guess Australia will become known as the "Land Up Up Top" and Canada will be known as the "Great White South". Of course this process is very slow. Another interesting thing about this phenomenon is during the process, North and South neutralize each other. This means that for a short time, Earth will have no magnetic field. Would be neat to watch birds flying in circles.

This is my last post to visit tonight with answers (that were in my email box).
So I can take some time and get real technical...................and stupid. 

If your at the South Pole, don't worry about 'everything being up hill'. Worry about falling off.....err......up...er 

As for 'wouldn't you get dizzy eventually'. Well, the Earth spins at approx. 1000 mph at the surface (relative to it's point in space) at the equator.
But as you go North or South, that speed decrease as the circumference of the 'line of latitude' that you are on does.
Until you reach a point say.......1 foot from the Pole. then, of course, it would take 24 hrs to do the circle with the 1 foot radius (2 ft diameter).
That's pretty slow. I don't think you'd get dizzy!      (I enjoyed that! )

As for Ozzy's 'now it's today, now it's yesterday' stuff. 
Kind of reminiscent of a famous 'stupid person' isn't it?.............."light goes on, light goes off........"  or   "bed goes up, bed goes down, bed goes up......"

Not that I mean anything by this last statement, at all. 

And the very act of observation alters that which is being observed...

Will

You started us on the quantum physics, I just joined in

Will