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This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00).
Monday, December 30, 1844, was immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845, which added 1 day or 24 hours to the local time. This change meant that the International Date Line moved from going west of the Philippines to go on the east side of the country, which had to follow the eastern hemisphere to align itself with the rest of Asia.
Eastern Standard Time (North America) ... International Date Line West time zone ... Pacific Standard Time (North America) UTC−08:00: PT (PST/PDT) ...
Since then, local times change at 2:00 a.m. EST to 3:00 a.m. EDT on the second Sunday in March, and return from 2:00 a.m. EDT to 1:00 a.m. EST on the first Sunday in November. [4] In Canada, daylight saving time begins and ends on the same days and at the same times as it does in the United States. [5] [6]
The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−08:00 ).
Big Bend and peninsula regions east of the Apalachicola River along with the portion of Gulf County south of the Intracoastal Waterway: UTC−05:00 EST Eastern Standard Time UTC−06:00 CT Florida Panhandle West of the Apalachicola River except for the portion of Gulf County south of the Intracoastal Waterway: UTC−06:00 CST Central Standard Time
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Before the adoption of four standard time zones for the continental United States, many towns and cities set their clocks to noon when the sun passed their local meridian, pre-corrected for the equation of time on the date of observation, to form local mean solar time. Noon occurred at different times but time differences between distant ...