Every Time Zone Converter (2024)

FAQs

What time is it for every time zone? ›

Other nations, such as Nepal, use quarter-hour deviations. This means that there are approximately 40 time zones rather than 24.

There are 24 regions (Time Zones) around the world with a time difference of one hour. This system has been adopted internationally by setting the total time difference around the world as 24 hours. Further, Daylight Saving Time (DST) is individually adopted in countries and regions.

More Than 24 Time Zones

In an ideal world, each time zone would cover 15 degrees of longitude, with a time difference of one hour to adjacent time zones. This would bring the total number of time zones to 24. However, the International Date Line (IDL) creates 3 more.

None of the 50 US states have three time zones. However, there are some states with two time zones. These are: Alaska (Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian)

There are actually six time zones in the USA. The four main ones are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Standard Time. The two others are Alaska Standard Time and Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, observed only by Alaska and Hawaii respectively.

NB. Howland & Baker Islands (UTC-12) do not have a time zone border with the Line Islands (UTC+14), nor with the nation of Samoa (UTC+14 DST) but the difference between them is 26 hours - the largest time zone difference anywhere.

Owing to the number of territories it governs beyond Europe, France has 12 (and for a period of the year 13) time zones. Metropolitan France operates on Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), while its dependencies range from Tahiti Time (UTC-10) in French Polynesia to Wallis & Futuna Time (UTC+12) in the South Pacific.

A map of Kiribati. No time zone 'really' exists. They are guided by the light – the Earth rotates, causing the sun to rise and set, and our local times of day reflect this – but the rigidity of their contours are an example of how society relies on the fabrication of some sort of consensual reality.

So why are some cities 30 or 45 minutes off? That has largely to do with the politics in each of those places. For example, in New Delhi, India, they found themselves halfway between two meridians, and therefore decided to be 30 minutes between each, as opposed to adopting one time or the other.

Why is Sri Lanka 30 minutes ahead? ›

In May 1996, the government, faced with a major electricity crisis, changed standard time to GMT+6:30 then readjusted it to the more convenient GMT+6 a few months later. Some conservative Sri Lankans never accepted the change. This resulted in a hilarious situation of 'old time' and 'new time' coexisting for a decade.

No country, or part of a country, is 24 hours ahead of any part of the contiguous 48 states of the U.S. However, there are places that are 24 hours ahead of American Samoa (UTC-11) and Hawaii (UTC-10).

Phoenix Island Time, Tokelau Time, Samoa Standard Time, Tonga Time, Fiji Summer Time, and New Zealand Daylight Saving Time (UTC+13) are 24 hours ahead of American Samoa Standard Time and Niue Time (UTC-11).

Which countries have a time difference of exactly 24 hours? The two countries that are 24 hours apart are Samoa and American Samoa [1]. Samoa is located to the east of the 180° meridian, while American Samoa is located to the west of the 180° meridian.

China has one time zone. It is officially called China Standard Time (CST). It is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+08:00). There is no daylight saving time.

No, that never happens, because the most advanced time zone (UTC+14:00 in the Line Islands of eastern Kiribati) is 25 time zones ahead of the most delayed time zone (UTC-11:00 in American Samoa and a few other inhabited islands in the South Pacific.)

UNITED STATES TIME ZONES

The United States uses nine time zones. From east to west they are Atlantic Time Zone, Eastern Time Zone, Central Time Zone, Mountain Time Zone, Pacific Time Zone, Alaska Time Zone, Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone, Samoa Time Zone and Chamorro Time Zone.

As Earth rotates on its axis, it moves about 15 degrees every 60 minutes. After 24 hours, it has completed a full rotation of 360 degrees. The scientists used this information to divide the planet into 24 sections or time zones. Each time zone is 15 degrees of longitude wide.