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Before time zones were introduced, every place used local observation of the sun to set its clocks, which meant that every location used a different local mean time based on its longitude. For example, Koror, the largest city of Palau at the time, at longitude 134°29′E, had a local time equivalent to GMT-15:02:04 under the date of the ...
The Federated States of Micronesia, a country in Oceania consisting of around 607 islands, observes two time zones, [1] UTC+10:00 in its western part, and UTC+11:00 in its eastern part. [2] Micronesia does not have an associated daylight saving time. [3] Micronesia lies just north of the equator, west of the International Date Line. [4]
UTC−08:00 – Pacific Time zone: the Pacific coast states, the Idaho Panhandle and most of Nevada and Oregon UTC−07:00 – Mountain Time zone: most of Idaho, part of Oregon, and the Mountain states plus western parts of some adjacent states UTC−06:00 – Central Time zone: a large area spanning from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2025a of the tz database. [2]
The two extreme time zones on Earth (both in the mid-Pacific) differ by 26 hours. Standard Time Zones, as of January 2, 2024 In the following list, only the rightmost indent of a group of locations is meant to indicate the area observing the offset; the places above and to the left are meant solely to indicate the area's parent administrative ...
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
In theory, ships are supposed to adopt the standard time of a country if they are within its territorial waters within 12 nautical miles (14 mi; 22 km) of land, then revert to international time zones (15° wide pole-to-pole gores) as soon as they leave. In practice, ships use these time zones only for radio communication and similar purposes.
GMT−15:56 (in Manila) local mean time: GMT−16:12 (in Balabac, the westernmost island) GMT−15:34 (in Davao Oriental, the easternmost area) Tuesday, December 31, 1844: The day that never occurred as ordered by the Spanish Governor-General Narciso Claveria to add 24 hours to the local mean time. [13] Time Zone change [note 3] Wednesday ...