Whats a TimeZone? - Steven.

A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. It is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time, so time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions.

Most of the 40 time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours (UTC−12 to UTC+14), but a few are offset by 30 or 45 minutes. Some higher latitude countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by changing clocks by an hour. Many land time zones are skewed toward the west of the corresponding nautical time zones. This also creates a permanent daylight saving time effect.





I Steven, Live in San diego, California. I live in a Pacific Time Zone, UTC-8.

If you are filling out Staff Applications, Use this to help you Answer number 5. I Will call you out on it if you did not fill in your time zone correctly.

== EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT TIMEZONES. MIGHT NOT BE 100% ACCURATE ON EVERY LOCATION! ==



These examples give the local time at various locations around the world when daylight saving time is not in effect:

Time zoneExample time(ISO 8601 notation)Example locationsExample locations that in summer use DST

UTC−12:00	2012-07-05T11:58:33-12:00	Baker Island, Howland Island (both uninhabited)
UTC−11:00	2012-07-05T12:58:33-11:00	American Samoa, Niue
UTC−10:00	2012-07-05T13:58:33-10:00	United States (Hawaii)	Most of French Polynesia, United States (Aleutian Islands)
UTC−09:30	2012-07-05T14:28:33-09:30	Marquesas Islands
UTC−09:00	2012-07-05T14:58:33-09:00	Gambier Islands	United States (most of Alaska)
UTC−08:00	2012-07-05T15:58:33-08:00		Canada (most of British Columbia), Mexico (Baja California), United States (California, most of Nevada, most of Oregon, Washington (state))
UTC−07:00	2012-07-05T16:58:33-07:00	Canada (northeastern British Columbia), Mexico (Sonora), United States (Arizona)	Canada (Alberta), Mexico (Chihuahua), United States (Colorado)
UTC−06:00	2012-07-05T17:58:33-06:00	Canada (almost all of Saskatchewan), Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador (Galápagos Islands), Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (most), Nicaragua,	Canada (Manitoba), United States (Illinois, most of Texas)
UTC−05:00	2012-07-05T18:58:33-05:00	Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador (continental), Jamaica, Panama, Peru	Canada (most of Ontario, most of Quebec), Haiti, United States (most of Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, most of Michigan, most of Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Washington D.C.)
UTC−04:30	2012-07-05T19:28:33-04:30	Venezuela
UTC−04:00	2012-07-05T19:58:33-04:00	Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas), Chile (continental), Dominican Republic, Canada (Nova Scotia), Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago	Falkland Islands
UTC−03:30	2012-07-05T20:28:33-03:30		Canada (island of Newfoundland and southern Labrador)
UTC−03:00	2012-07-05T20:58:33-03:00	Argentina, Paraguay	Brazil (Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo), most of Greenland, Uruguay
UTC−02:00	2012-07-05T21:58:33-02:00	Brazil (Fernando de Noronha), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
UTC−01:00	2012-07-05T22:58:33-01:00	Portugal (Azores), Cape Verde
UTC±00:00	2012-07-05T23:58:33+00:00	Côte d'Ivoire, Faroe Islands, Ghana, Iceland, Senegal	Ireland, Portugal (continental and Madeira), Spain (Canary Islands), Morocco, United Kingdom, Western Sahara
UTC+01:00	2012-07-06T00:58:33+01:00	Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, Tunisia	Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain (continental), Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Kinshasa, Kosovo, Macedonia, France (metropolitan), the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland
UTC+02:00	2012-07-06T01:58:33+02:00	Libya, Egypt, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe	Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Moldova, Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Romania, Syria, Transnistria, Turkey, Ukraine
UTC+03:00	2012-07-06T02:58:33+03:00	Belarus, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Kenya, Madagascar, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast), Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen
UTC+03:30	2012-07-06T03:28:33+03:30		Iran
UTC+04:00	2012-07-06T03:58:33+04:00	Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mauritius, Nagorno-Karabakh, Oman, Russia (European), Seychelles, South Ossetia, United Arab Emirates
UTC+04:30	2012-07-06T04:28:33+04:30	Afghanistan
UTC+05:00	2012-07-06T04:58:33+05:00	Kazakhstan (West), Maldives, Pakistan, Uzbekistan
UTC+05:30	2012-07-06T05:28:33+05:30	India, Sri Lanka
UTC+05:45	2012-07-06T05:43:33+05:45	Nepal
UTC+06:00	2012-07-06T05:58:33+06:00	Kazakhstan (most), Bangladesh, Russia (Ural: Sverdlovsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
UTC+06:30	2012-07-06T06:28:33+06:30	Cocos Islands, Myanmar
UTC+07:00	2012-07-06T06:58:33+07:00	Jakarta, Russia (Novosibirsk Oblast), Thailand, Vietnam
UTC+08:00	2012-07-06T07:58:33+08:00	China, Hong Kong, Russia (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, most of Mongolia, Western Australia
UTC+09:00	2012-07-06T08:58:33+09:00	East Timor, Russia (Irkutsk Oblast), Japan, North Korea, South Korea
UTC+09:30	2012-07-06T09:28:33+09:30	Australia (Northern Territory)	Australia (South Australia)
UTC+10:00	2012-07-06T09:58:33+10:00	Russia (Zabaykalsky Krai), Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)	Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria)
UTC+10:30	2012-07-06T10:28:33+10:30		Lord Howe Island
UTC+11:00	2012-07-06T10:58:33+11:00	New Caledonia, Russia (Primorsky Krai), Solomon Islands
UTC+11:30	2012-07-06T11:28:33+11:30	Norfolk Island
UTC+12:00	2012-07-06T11:58:33+12:00	Kiribati (Gilbert Islands), Fiji, Russia (Kamchatka Krai)	New Zealand
UTC+12:45	2012-07-06T12:43:33+12:45		Chatham Islands
UTC+13:00	2012-07-06T12:58:33+13:00	Kiribati (Phoenix Islands), Tonga	Samoa
UTC+14:00	2012-07-06T13:58:33+14:00	Kiribati (Line Islands), Tokelau

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This was originally posted by Steven.