Time zone A time zone was an area of specific time , utilised primarily as a means of keeping time via clock s . It was also used as a term when discussing time travel to specific destinations . Time travel . In the war zone s created by the War Lord s , the Second Doctor and his companions moved from a time zone to another one passing through a mist . The intervention of the Time Lord s sent the human prisoners back to their original time zones . ( TV : " The War Games " ) The Malus , while creating psychic - projection s from the past , was able to directly connect two time zones , allowing Will Chandler to come from the 16th century to the 20th century . ( TV : " The Awakening " ) The Doctor ' s TARDIS brought the Fifth Doctor " in the right place , but the wrong time zone " when he bumped into an older Brigadier . When on Mawdryn ' s spaceship , the Doctors said they had a problem about the two different time zones of the two versions of the Brigadier on the ship . ( TV : " Mawdryn Undead " ) Upon being activated by Davros , the Hand of Omega travelled to Skaro ' s time zone ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) and detonated Skaro ' s second sun , ( PROSE : " The Stranger " ) causing the sun to go nova . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) The stones of Stonehenge broadcasted the message about the Pandorica to every time zone . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) Apalapucia had a two streams facility which enabled visitors dying of Chen - 7 , the one day plague , to live out their entire lives in the Red Waterfalls time stream , while their loved ones could watch them live in the Green Anchor time stream as it was , as the Eleventh Doctor stated , kinder than watching them die in their bed . It functioned , by using temporal engine , so that several time streams overlapped enabling thousands to be in the facility at one time . Amy Pond became trapped in the Red Waterfall stream when visiting with the Doctor and Rory Williams . The latter two used the TARDIS to break into her time zone though we ' re 38 years late . The time zone eventually collapsed when the aged Amy helped Rory and the Doctor retrieve her younger self , being erased as her timeline ceased to be . ( TV : " The Girl Who Waited " ) River Song hinted the technology in the warehouse where a mysterious phone call to president Nixon started from could have originated in a different time zone . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " ) When repeatedly teleported in his confession dial , the Twelfth Doctor ' s ability to feel time travel made him state he should have been in the same time zone he had left , but the pattern of the star s in the sky suggested he had time travelled . ( TV : " Heaven Sent " ) The Doctor , , Bill and Nardole once visited a colony ship that orbited a black hole . The time dilation it created caused there to be a gradual displacement in the time zones along the ship ; the further a floor from the black hole , the faster time passed . As such , by the time 1000 years passed on Floor 1056 , only a little over 2 days passed on Floor 0000 , ( TV : " World Enough and Time " ) and two weeks on Floor 0507 was long enough for the Cybermen on Floor 1056 to evolve into their strongest model . ( TV : " The Doctor Falls " ) Standard time on Earth . In a test run of the ATMOS system preceding the Sontaran invasion of Earth in 2009 , 52 human s driving ATMOS - fitted car s were kill ed at the exact same time in 11 different time zones across the planet . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem " ) While speaking with the Eleventh Doctor on the phone , thinking he was a computer technician , Clara Oswald asked if she was phoning a different time zone and if it would have showed up in her bill , since their hours didn ' t match . ( TV : " The Bells of Saint John " )