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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 ).
The conference therefore established the Greenwich Meridian as the prime meridian and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the world's time standard. The U.S. time-zone system grew from this, in which all zones referred back to GMT on the prime meridian. [2]
As such, a live Sunday sporting event that is played from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time preempts local 6:00 p.m. newscasts on the East Coast. Likewise, a State of the Union address that is televised at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time preempts local 6:00 p.m. newscasts on the West Coast.
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Time zones of the world. A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.
2: UTC+10:00 – Most of the country UTC+11:00 – Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Bougainville Standard Time) Portugal: 2: UTC−01:00 – Azores UTC+00:00 – Madeira and the Main territory of Portugal: Time in Portugal: South Africa: 2: UTC+02:00 (South African Standard Time) – Main territory of South Africa UTC+03:00 – Prince Edward ...
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time: UTC+00:00: GST: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Time: UTC−02:00: GST: Gulf Standard Time: UTC+04:00: GYT: Guyana Time: UTC−04:00: HDT: Hawaii–Aleutian Daylight Time: UTC−09:00: HAEC: Heure Avancée d'Europe Centrale French-language name for CEST UTC+02:00: HST: Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time: UTC ...
The town of Hyder, because it essentially is a single town split by the border between the United States and Canada, unofficially observes Pacific Time including DST (UTC−08:00, DST UTC−07:00) like its neighbor Stewart, British Columbia, with the exception of the U.S. Post Office (because it is a federal facility).