page_title: Time zone
hierarchical_section_title: Time zone
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: A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time.
  Most of the time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time by a whole number of hours, but a few zones are offset by 30 or 45 minutes.
  Some higher latitude and temperate zone countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by adjusting local clock time by an hour. Many land time zones are skewed toward the west of the corresponding nautical time zones. This also creates permanent daylight saving time effect.
context_section_description: A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time.
  Most of the time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours (UTC−12:00 to UTC+14:00), but a few zones are offset by 30 or 45 minutes (e.g. Newfoundland Standard Time is UTC−03:30, Nepal Standard Time is UTC+05:45, Indian Standard Time is UTC+05:30 and Myanmar Standard Time is UTC+06:30).
  Some higher latitude and temperate zone countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by adjusting local clock time by an hour. Many land time zones are skewed toward the west of the corresponding nautical time zones. This also creates  permanent daylight saving time effect.
caption: 2020 time zone map showing an example of the way time zones are mapped out.
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