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  2. Time in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Operators of the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced at noon on November 18, 1883, in Chicago, IL, when the telegraph lines transmitted time signals to all major cities. [4] [5]

  3. Lists of time zones - Wikipedia

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    List of time zones by country – sorted by number of current time zones in the world; List of UTC offsets – current UTC offsets; List of time zone abbreviations – abbreviations; List of tz database time zoneszones used by many computer systems as defined by IANA; List of military time zones; Country-specific: List of time zones by U.S ...

  4. List of time zones by country - Wikipedia

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    UTC−08:00 (Zone 4 or Northwest Zone) – State of Baja California UTC−07:00 (Zone 3 or Pacific Zone) – States of Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora UTC−06:00 (Zone 2 or Central Zone) – Most of Mexico UTC−05:00 (Zone 1 or Southeast Zone) – State of Quintana Roo: Time in Mexico: Chile: 3: UTC−06:00 ...

  5. List of tz database time zones - Wikipedia

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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 2025a of the tz database. [2]

  6. Time zone - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. What is the biggest country in the world? It's so big it has ...

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    The top three largest countries in the world are Russia, Canada and the United States of America, according to the World Atlas. The U.S. and China have been head-to-head for the position of the ...

  8. List of time offsets by U.S. state and territory - Wikipedia

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    Map of U.S. time zones with new CST and EST areas displayed. Some U.S. time zones, such as the Samoa Time Zone, are not on this map. This is a list of the time offsets by U.S. states, federal district, and territories. For more about the time zones of the U.S. see time in the United States. Most states are entirely contained within one time zone.

  9. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    UN estimates (as of 2017) for world population by continent in 2000 and in 2050 (pie chart size to scale) Asia Africa Europe Central/South America North America Oceania. Population estimates for world regions based on Maddison (2007), [29] in millions. The row showing total world population includes the average growth rate per year over the ...