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This is a list representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica and all other counties ).
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 2024b of the tz database. [2]
In May 1899, in a break with the common international practice of setting one-hour intervals between adjacent time zones, South Australia advanced Central Standard Time by thirty minutes after lobbying by businesses who wanted to be closer to Melbourne time and cricketers and footballers who wanted more daylight to practice in the evenings. [3]
Time zone Location(s) Offset Beijing Time: China UTC+8 hour A Alpha Time Zone: Military UTC+1 hour ACDT Australian Central Daylight Time: Australia UTC+10:30 hours ACST Australian Central Standard Time: Australia UTC+9:30 hours ADT Atlantic Daylight Time: North America UTC−3 hours AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time: Australia UTC+11 hours AEST
If present, a dagger (†) indicates the usage of a nautical time zone letter outside of the standard geographic definition of that time zone. Some zones that are north/south of each other in the mid-Pacific differ by 24 hours in time – they have the same time of day but dates that are one day apart. The two extreme time zones on Earth (both ...
Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory, New South Wales (except Lord Howe Island), Norfolk Island, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria; First Sunday in October at 02:00 First Sunday in April at 03:00 1 hour Australia: Lord Howe Island; First Sunday in October at 02:00 First Sunday in April at 02:00 30 minutes New Zealand
Time zones of the world. A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.
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