page_title: Standard time
hierarchical_section_title: Standard time
caption_attribution_description: Español: Mapa de los husos horarios oficiales vigentes. English: Map of current official time zones. Français&#160;: Carte des fuseaux horaires officiels en cours. Deutsch: Karte der aktuellen offiziellen Zeitzonen.中文: 目前的时区地图。 Русский: Карта текущих официальных часовых поясов. Bahasa Indonesia: Peta resmi zona waktu di dunia. العربية: خريطةالمناطق‌الزمنيةالرسمية الحالية۔ اردو: موجودہ‌‌سرکاری‌‌مناطق‌ِوقت‌کا نقشہ۔ فارسی: نقشه‌مناطق‌زمانی‌رسمی‌فعلی۔
context_page_description: Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical area or region to a single time standard, rather than using solar time or a locally chosen meridian to establish a local mean time standard. Generally, standard time agrees with the local mean time at some meridian that passes through the region, often near the center of the region. Historically, the concept was established during the 19th century to aid weather forecasting and train travel. Applied globally in the 20th century, the geographical areas became extended around evenly spaced meridians into time zones which centered on them. The standard time set in each time zone has come to be defined in terms of offsets from Universal Time. In regions where daylight saving time is used, that time is defined by another offset, from the standard time in its applicable time zones.
  The adoption of standard time, because of the inseparable correspondence between time and longitude, solidified the concepts of halving the globe into an eastern and western hemisphere, with one prime meridian replacing the various prime meridians that had previously been used.
context_section_description: Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical area or region to a single time standard, rather than using solar time or a locally chosen meridian (longitude) to establish a local mean time standard. Generally, standard time agrees with the local mean time at some meridian that passes through the region, often near the center of the region. Historically, the concept was established during the 19th century to aid weather forecasting and train travel. Applied globally in the 20th century, the geographical areas became extended around evenly spaced meridians into time zones which (usually) centered on them. The standard time set in each time zone has come to be defined in terms of offsets from Universal Time. In regions where daylight saving time is used, that time is defined by another offset, from the standard time in its applicable time zones.
  The adoption of standard time, because of the inseparable correspondence between time and longitude, solidified the concepts of halving the globe into an eastern and western hemisphere, with one prime meridian (as well its opposite International Date Line) replacing the various prime meridians that had previously been used.
caption: Worldwide time zones at present
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