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The three time zones of Chile since 2017. Time in Chile is divided into three time zones. Most of Continental Chile uses the time offset UTC−04:00 in winter time and UTC−03:00 in summer time, while the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica region uses the time offset UTC−03:00 the whole year.
Standard Time (SDT) and Daylight Saving Time (DST) offsets from UTC in hours and minutes. For zones in which Daylight Saving is not observed, the DST offset shown in this table is a simple duplication of the SDT offset.
The event can be shown at the wrong time. For example, if a New Yorker plans to meet someone in Los Angeles at 9 am, and makes a calendar entry at 9 am (which the computer assumes is New York time), the calendar entry will be at 6 am if taking the computer's time zone. Calendaring software must also deal with daylight saving time (DST). If, for ...
Continental Chile is the name given to the Chilean territory located on the continental shelf of South America. This term serves to distinguish the South American area from the insular territories, known as Insular Chile , as from the Antarctic Chile (Chilean Antarctic Territory).
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]
Continental shelf of Chile in the Southern Zone Sea. According to the principle that "the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights," [13] the continental shelf of Continental Chile encompasses the entirety of its territorial sea and its Exclusive Economic Zone, except for the 200 nautical miles projected from the Diego Ramírez Islands in the Southern Zone Sea, which ...
[26] [27] In August of the same year, Chile made the oral presentations of both partial submissions during the 55th Session of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf at the United Nations in New York. [28] [3] In 2023, Chile, through SHOA, made available an illustrative graphic showing all the maritime areas claimed by the ...
Map of the three areas dividing Chilean territory: In blue: Continental Chile In red: Insular Chile In green: Antarctic Chile Map of what is considered insular Chile. Insular Chile, also called Las islas Esporádicas, or "the Sporadic Islands", is a scattered group of oceanic islands of volcanic origin located in the South Pacific, and which are under the sovereignty of Chile.