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The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2024b of the tz database. [2]
This is a list representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica and all other counties ).
CET is also known as Middle European Time (MET, German: MEZ) and by colloquial names such as Amsterdam Time, Berlin Time, Brussels Time, Budapest Time, Madrid Time, Paris Time, Rome Time, Prague time, Warsaw Time or Romance Standard Time (RST). The 15th meridian east is the central axis per UTC+01:00 in the world system of time zones.
The country observes Daylight Saving Time (DST). DST was first introduced in Hungary in 1916 and was observed until 1919. It was also in use between 1941–1949 and 1954–1957. DST has been in use again since 1980. [1] Hungary is represented in the IANA time zone database under the entry Europe/Budapest, in the file zone.tab. [2]
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
Time zone: Central European Time: Initials: CET: UTC offset: UTC+01:00: Adopted: 1 October 1891 (Prague and Budapest) 1 April 1893 : Daylight saving time; Name: Central European Summer Time: Initials: CEST: UTC offset: UTC+02:00: Start: Last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) End: Last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST) tz database; Europe/Vienna
Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time : Red: Central European Time : Central European Summer Time : Yellow: Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time : Ochre: Eastern European Time : Eastern European Summer Time : Green: Moscow Time / Turkey Time : Turquoise
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]