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Time zone
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abbreviations.

Abbr.	Name	UTC offset
ACDT	Australian Central Daylight Time	UTC+10:30 UTC+10:30 UTC+10:30 is an identifier for a +10:30 time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As daylight saving time :Australia *New South Wales - Broken Hill, New South Wales only...
ACST	Australian Central Standard Time	UTC+09:30
ACT	ASEAN Common Time ASEAN Common Time ASEAN Common Time is an idea by ASEAN to adopt a standard time of UTC+08 for all member countries. Some businesses with a local or regional reach have already adopted the use of the "ASEAN Common Time", and can be seen using the abbreviation '"ACT"' in their Press Releases, communications, and...	UTC+08
ADT	Atlantic Daylight Time	UTC−03
AEDT	Australian Eastern Daylight Time	UTC+11 UTC+11 UTC+11 is an identifier for a +11 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As standard time :Federated States of MicronesiaKosrae, Pohnpei and surrounding areaNew CaledoniaSolomon IslandsVanuatu*Russia...
AEST	Australian Eastern Standard Time	UTC+10 UTC+10 UTC+10 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +10. This time is used in:-As standard time :Australia QueenslandFederated States of Micronesia**Chuuk, Yap and surrounding area...
AFT	Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world... Time	UTC+04:30
AKDT	Alaska Daylight Time	UTC−08
AKST	Alaska Standard Time Alaska Time Zone The Alaska Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting nine hours from Coordinated Universal Time . During daylight saving time its time offset is only eight hours . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 135th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory.The zone...	UTC−09
AMST	Armenia Summer Time	UTC+05
AMT	Armenia Time Armenia Time Armenia Time is a time zone used in Armenia. The standard time zone is four hours ahead of UTC at UTC+4 and the summer time one hour ahead of the standard AMT at UTC+5.-External links:...	UTC+04
ART	Argentina Time	UTC−03
AST	Arab Standard Time (Kuwait Kuwait The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the... , Riyadh Riyadh Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Najd and Al-Yamama. It is situated in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau, and is home to 5,254,560 people, and the urban center of a... )	UTC+03
AST	Arabian Standard Time (Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western... , Muscat Muscat, Oman Muscat is the capital of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Governorate of Muscat. As of 2008, the population of the Muscat metropolitan area was 1,090,797. The metropolitan area spans approximately and includes six provinces called wilayats... )	UTC+04
AST	Arabic Standard Time (Baghdad Baghdad Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040... )	UTC+03
AST	Atlantic Standard Time Atlantic Standard Time Zone The Atlantic Standard Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from either Coordinated Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time , resulting in UTC-4 or GMT-4...	UTC−04
AWDT	Australian Western Daylight Time	UTC+09
AWST	Australian Western Standard Time	UTC+08
AZOST	Azores Azores The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the... Standard Time	UTC−01
AZT	Azerbaijan Time Azerbaijan Time Azerbaijan Time, or AZT, is a time zone used in Azerbaijan. The standard time zone is four hours ahead of UTC with summer time one hour ahead of the standard AZT, being UTC+05:00....	UTC+04
BDT	Brunei Brunei Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia... Time	UTC+08
BIOT	British Indian Ocean Time	UTC+06
BIT	Baker Island Baker Island Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia, and is a possession of the United States. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north.Located at... Time	UTC−12
BOT	Bolivia Bolivia Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America... Time	UTC−04
BRT	Brasilia Time	UTC−03
BST	Bangladesh Standard Time Bangladesh Standard Time Bangladesh Standard Time , commonly abbreviated as BST is the time zone of Bangladesh, is observed throughout the whole country, with a time offset of UTC+6:00. Bangladesh observed daylight saving time in 2009 in order to cope with the ongoing electricity crisis but in 2010 the decision was cancelled...	UTC+06
BST	British Summer Time British Summer Time Western European Summer Time is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in the following places:* the Canary Islands* Portugal * Ireland... (British Standard Time from Feb 1968 to Oct 1971)	UTC+01
BTT	Bhutan Time Bhutan Time Bhutan Time is the time zone of Bhutan. It is +6:00 hrs ahead of Universal Time Coordinated . Bhutan does not observe any Daylight saving time....	UTC+06
CAT	Central Africa Time Central Africa Time Central Africa Time, or CAT, is a time zone used in central and southern Africa. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC , which is the same as the adjacent South Africa Standard Time and also the same as Eastern European Time....	UTC+02
CCT	Cocos Islands Time	UTC+06:30
CDT	Central Daylight Time (North America)	UTC−05
CEDT	Central European Daylight Time	UTC+02
CEST	Central European Summer Time Central European Summer Time Central European Summer Time is one of the names of the Daylight saving time offset using the UTC offset of UTC+02:00, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in most European countries. During the winter, Central European Time is used... (Cf. HAEC)	UTC+02
CET	Central European Time Central European Time Central European Time , used in most parts of the European Union, is a standard time that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time . The time offset from UTC can be written as +01:00...	UTC+01
CHADT	Chatham Daylight Time Time in New Zealand New Zealand has two time zones. The main islands use New Zealand Standard Time , 12 hours in advance of Coordinated Universal Time , while the outlying Chatham Islands use Chatham Standard Time , 12 hours 45 minutes in advance of UTC.During summer daylight saving time is observed and clocks are...	UTC+13:45 UTC+13:45 UTC+13:45 is an identifier for a +13:45 time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-External links:*...
CHAST	Chatham Standard Time Chatham Standard Time Zone The Chatham Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by adding twelve hours and forty-five minutes to Coordinated Universal Time resulting in UTC+12:45....	UTC+12:45 UTC+12:45 UTC+12:45 is an identifier for a +12:45 time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-External links:*...
CIST	Clipperton Island Clipperton Island Clipperton Island is an uninhabited nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Central America, at... Standard Time	UTC−08
CKT	Cook Island Cook Island Cook Island may refer to* Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands, central island in Southern Thule* Cook Island of Kiritimati, Kiribati* Cook Islands, self governing democracy in the Pacific, in free association with New Zealand, of which "Cook Island" is the adjectival demonym* Cook Island Aquatic... Time	UTC−10
CLST	Chile Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far... Summer Time	UTC−03
CLT	Chile Standard Time	UTC−04
COST	Colombia Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the... Summer Time	UTC−04
COT	Colombia Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the... Time	UTC−05
CST	Central Standard Time (North America)	UTC−06
CST	China Standard Time	UTC+08
CST	Central Standard Time (Australia)	UTC+09:30
CT	China Time	UTC+08
CVT	Cape Verde Time Cape Verde Time Cape Verde Time, or CVT, is a time zone used by the Atlantic island nation of Cape Verde. The zone is one hour behind UTC .Daylight saving time is not observed in this time zone....	UTC−01
CXT	Christmas Island Christmas Island The Territory of Christmas Island is a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ENE of the Cocos Islands.... Time	UTC+07
CHST	Chamorro Standard Time Chamorro Time Zone The Chamorro Time Zone, formerly the Guam Time Zone, observes standard time by adding ten hours to Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 150th meridian east of the Greenwich Observatory....	UTC+10 UTC+10 UTC+10 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +10. This time is used in:-As standard time :Australia QueenslandFederated States of Micronesia**Chuuk, Yap and surrounding area...
DFT	AIX specific equivalent of Central European Time Central European Time Central European Time , used in most parts of the European Union, is a standard time that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time . The time offset from UTC can be written as +01:00...	UTC+01
EAST	Easter Island Easter Island Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people... Standard Time	UTC−06
EAT	East Africa Time East Africa Time East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa. The zone is three hours ahead of UTC , which is the same as Arabia Standard Time, and also the same as Eastern European Summer Time....	UTC+03
ECT	Eastern Caribbean Time (does not recognise DST)	UTC−04
ECT	Ecuador Time Ecuador Time Ecuador Time , as named by the tz database, is the time observed in mainland Ecuador since 1931. This means Ecuador without Galápagos Province, which observed Ecuador Time until 1986, when it switched to Galápagos Time . Ecuador Time is at UTC-05:00 and has no daylight saving, except for a brief...	UTC−05
EDT	Eastern Daylight Time Eastern Time Zone The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time... (North America)	UTC−04
EEDT	Eastern European Daylight Time	UTC+03
EEST	Eastern European Summer Time Eastern European Summer Time Eastern European Summer Time is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries...	UTC+03
EET	Eastern European Time Eastern European Time Eastern European Time is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in some European countries that also use Eastern European Summer Time as a summer daylight saving time.- Usage :...	UTC+02
EST	Eastern Standard Time Eastern Time Zone The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time... (North America)	UTC−05
FJT	Fiji Fiji Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island... Time	UTC+12 UTC+12 UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a +12 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As standard time :KiribatiGilbert Islands and BanabaMarshall IslandsNauruRussiaChukotka Autonomous OkrugKamchatka Krai**Kuril Islands...
FKST	Falkland Islands Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland... Summer Time	UTC−03
FKT	Falkland Islands Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland... Time	UTC−04
GALT	Galapagos Time Galápagos Time Galápagos Time is the time observed since 1986 in the province of Galápagos, which is coterminous with the Región Insular of western Ecuador. Galápagos Time is at UTC-6. The rest of Ecuador, the mainland, observes Ecuador Time....	UTC−06
GET	Georgia Georgia (country) Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of... Standard Time	UTC+04
GFT	French Guiana French Guiana French Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west... Time	UTC−03
GILT	Gilbert Island Time	UTC+12 UTC+12 UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a +12 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As standard time :KiribatiGilbert Islands and BanabaMarshall IslandsNauruRussiaChukotka Autonomous OkrugKamchatka Krai**Kuril Islands...
GIT	Gambier Island Gambier Island Gambier Island is an island located in Howe Sound near Vancouver, British Columbia. It is about 17,000 acres in size and is located about 10 km north of the Horseshoe Bay community and ferry terminal in westernmost West Vancouver.... Time	UTC−09
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time Greenwich Mean Time Greenwich Mean Time is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time and when this is viewed as a time zone the name Greenwich Mean Time is especially used by bodies connected with the United...	UTC Coordinated Universal Time Coordinated Universal Time is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. Computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC for that purpose...
GST	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands, known as the South Sandwich...	UTC−02
GST	Gulf Standard Time	UTC+04
GYT	Guyana Guyana Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British... Time	UTC−04
HADT	Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time The Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone observes Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time , by subtracting nine hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 150th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory....	UTC−09
HAEC	Heure Avancée d'Europe Centrale francised name for CEST	UTC+02
HAST	Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time Hawaii-Aleutian time zone The Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone observes Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time , by subtracting ten hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 150th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory....	UTC−10
HKT	Hong Kong Time Hong Kong Time Hong Kong Time is the time in Hong Kong, observed at UTC+8 all year round. The Hong Kong Observatory is the official timekeeper of the Hong Kong Time.-Time standards:...	UTC+08
HMT	Heard and McDonald Islands Time	UTC+05
HST	Hawaii Standard Time	UTC−10
ICT	Indochina Time	UTC+07
IDT	Israeli Daylight Time	UTC+03
IRKT	Irkutsk Time Irkutsk Time Irkutsk Time Zone is the time zone five hours ahead of Moscow Time .Before 27 March 2011, Irkutsk Time was eight hours ahead of UTC in winter and nine hours ahead of UTC in summer ....	UTC+08
IRST	Iran Standard Time	UTC+03:30
IST	Indian Standard Time Indian Standard Time Indian Standard Time is the time observed throughout India and Sri Lanka, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments, although DST was used briefly during the Sino–Indian War of 1962 and the Indo–Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971...	UTC+05:30
IST	Irish Summer Time	UTC+01
IST	Israel Standard Time Israel Standard Time Israel Standard Time is the standard time zone in Israel. It is two hours ahead of UTC .-History:...	UTC+02
JST	Japan Standard Time Japan Standard Time Japan Standard Time or JST is the standard timezone of Japan, and is 9 hours ahead of UTC. For example, when it is midnight in UTC, it is 09:00 in Japan Standard Time. There is no daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated several times. Japan Standard Time is the same as...	UTC+09
KRAT	Krasnoyarsk Time Krasnoyarsk Time Krasnoyarsk Time is the time zone eight hours ahead of UTC and 4 hours ahead of Moscow Time . KRAT is the official time zone for central and east Siberian regions of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Khakassia and Tuva....	UTC+07
KST	Korea Standard Time Korea Standard Time Korea Standard Time is the standard time zone in North and South Korea and is 9 hours ahead of UTC : i.e., when it is midnight UTC, it is 9 am Korea Standard Time. Korea does not currently observe daylight saving time but has experimented with it in the past...	UTC+09
LHST	Lord Howe Lord Howe Island Lord Howe Island is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, and about from Norfolk Island. The island is about 11 km long and between 2.8 km and 0.6 km wide with an area of... Standard Time	UTC+10:30 UTC+10:30 UTC+10:30 is an identifier for a +10:30 time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As daylight saving time :Australia *New South Wales - Broken Hill, New South Wales only...
LINT	Line Islands Line Islands The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands, that stretches for 2,350 km in a northwest-southeast direction, making it one of the longest islands chains of the world... Time	UTC+14 UTC+14 UTC+14 is an identifier for a +14 hour time offset from UTC. This is the highest time zone, meaning that areas in this zone are the first to see a new day, and therefore the first to celebrate a new year....
MAGT	Magadan Time Magadan Time Magadan Time or MAGT, is a time zone in Russia, named after Magadan, the administrative center of Magadan Oblast. It is twelve hours ahead of UTC and eight hours ahead of Moscow Time ....	UTC+11 UTC+11 UTC+11 is an identifier for a +11 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As standard time :Federated States of MicronesiaKosrae, Pohnpei and surrounding areaNew CaledoniaSolomon IslandsVanuatu*Russia...
MDT	Mountain Daylight Time Mountain Time Zone The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time, during the shortest days of autumn and winter , and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time in the spring, summer, and early autumn... (North America)	UTC−06
MET	Middle European Time CET CET may mean:* Certified Electronics Technician, a service professional designation* Carbon emissions trading* Carrier Ethernet Transport* Center for Environmental Technology, a radio receiver designer.... Same zone as CET	UTC+02
MEST	Middle European Saving Time Same zone as CEST	UTC+02
MIT	Marquesas Islands Marquesas Islands The Marquesas Islands enana and Te Fenua `Enata , both meaning "The Land of Men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean. The Marquesas are located at 9° 00S, 139° 30W... Time	UTC−09:30
MSD	Moscow Summer Time	UTC+04
MSK	Moscow Standard Time	UTC+03
MST	Malaysian Standard Time Malaysian Standard Time Malaysia Standard Time or Waktu Piawai Malaysia or Malaysia Time is a standard time used in Malaysia. It is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time. The local mean time in Kuala Lumpur was originally GMT+06:46:48...	UTC+08
MST	Mountain Standard Time Mountain Time Zone The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time, during the shortest days of autumn and winter , and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time in the spring, summer, and early autumn... (North America)	UTC−07
MST	Myanmar Standard Time Myanmar Standard Time Myanmar Standard Time is the standard time in Myanmar , 6:30 hours ahead of UTC . MST is calculated on the basis of 97° 30' longitude. MST is used all year round as Myanmar does not observe daylight saving time....	UTC+06:30
MUT	Mauritius Time Mauritius Time Mauritius Time, or MUT, is a time zone used by in the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius. The zone is four hours ahead of UTC ....	UTC+04
MYT	Malaysia Time	UTC+08
NDT	Newfoundland Daylight Time Newfoundland Standard Time Zone Newfoundland Standard Time ' is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting 3½ hours from Coordinated Universal Time , resulting in UTC−3:30, or 2½ hours during daylight saving time...	UTC−02:30
NFT	Norfolk Norfolk Island Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance... Time	UTC+11:30 UTC+11:30 UTC+11:30 is an identifier for a +11:30 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-Historical:On November 2, 1868, New Zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172° 30' East of Greenwich,...
NPT	Nepal Time Nepal Time Nepal Standard Time is the time zone for Nepal, with a time offset from Coordinated Universal Time of +05:45. Nepal Standard Time, is one of only two official time zones with a 45-minute increment from UTC. The Chatham Islands, which uses Chatham Island Standard Time also has a 45-minute...	UTC+05:45
NST	Newfoundland Standard Time	UTC−03:30
NT	Newfoundland Time Newfoundland Standard Time Zone Newfoundland Standard Time ' is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting 3½ hours from Coordinated Universal Time , resulting in UTC−3:30, or 2½ hours during daylight saving time...	UTC−03:30
NZDT	New Zealand Daylight Time Time in New Zealand New Zealand has two time zones. The main islands use New Zealand Standard Time , 12 hours in advance of Coordinated Universal Time , while the outlying Chatham Islands use Chatham Standard Time , 12 hours 45 minutes in advance of UTC.During summer daylight saving time is observed and clocks are...	UTC+13 UTC+13 UTC+13 is an identifier for a +13 hour time offset from UTC.This time is used as standard time in:KiribatiPhoenix Islands Tonga-Samoa and Tokelau:...
NZST	New Zealand Standard Time Time in New Zealand New Zealand has two time zones. The main islands use New Zealand Standard Time , 12 hours in advance of Coordinated Universal Time , while the outlying Chatham Islands use Chatham Standard Time , 12 hours 45 minutes in advance of UTC.During summer daylight saving time is observed and clocks are...	UTC+12 UTC+12 UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a +12 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As standard time :KiribatiGilbert Islands and BanabaMarshall IslandsNauruRussiaChukotka Autonomous OkrugKamchatka Krai**Kuril Islands...
OMST	Omsk Time Omsk Time Omsk Time is the time zone seven hours ahead of UTC and 3 hours ahead of Moscow Time . It is the official time in Omsk Oblast and, , most other West Siberian regions in Russia...	UTC+06
PDT	Pacific Daylight Time Pacific Time Zone The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC-7.In the United States... (North America)	UTC−07
PETT	Kamchatka Time Kamchatka Time Kamchatka Time or PETT, was a time zone in Russia, named after the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is 12 hours ahead of UTC and 9 hours ahead of Moscow Time...	UTC+12 UTC+12 UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a +12 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As standard time :KiribatiGilbert Islands and BanabaMarshall IslandsNauruRussiaChukotka Autonomous OkrugKamchatka Krai**Kuril Islands...
PHOT	Phoenix Island Phoenix Island Phoenix Island , dubbed the Oriental Dubai, is an artificial archipelago forming an island resort currently under construction in Sanya, Hainan, China.The island is located in Sanya Bay, and is long by wide and covers a total area of... Time	UTC+13 UTC+13 UTC+13 is an identifier for a +13 hour time offset from UTC.This time is used as standard time in:KiribatiPhoenix Islands Tonga-Samoa and Tokelau:...
PKT	Pakistan Standard Time Pakistan Standard Time Pakistan Time is the time zone for Pakistan. It is 5 hours ahead of GMT/UTC .The only tz database zone is Asia/Karachi.-History:The current Pakistan time was set up at midnight between 29 September and 30 1951...	UTC+05
PST	Pacific Standard Time Pacific Time Zone The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC-7.In the United States... (North America)	UTC−08
PST	Philippine Standard Time Philippine Standard Time Philippine Standard Time , also known as Philippine Time , is the official name for the time in the Philippines. The country only has one time zone, the UTC+08:00 time zone. The country used the daylight saving time for a short time...	UTC+08
RET	Réunion Réunion Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France... Time	UTC+04
SAMT	Samara Time Samara Time Samara Time was the time zone 4 hours ahead of UTC and 1 hour ahead of Moscow Time . Samara Summer Time was UTC+5...	UTC+04
SAST	South African Standard Time	UTC+02
SBT	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal... Time	UTC+11 UTC+11 UTC+11 is an identifier for a +11 hour time offset from UTC. This time is used in:-As standard time :Federated States of MicronesiaKosrae, Pohnpei and surrounding areaNew CaledoniaSolomon IslandsVanuatu*Russia...
SCT	Seychelles Time Seychelles Time Seychelles Time, or SCT, is a time zone used by in the Indian Ocean island nation of the Seychelles. The zone is four hours ahead of UTC .Daylight saving time is not observed in this time zone....	UTC+04
SGT	Singapore Time	UTC+08
SLT	Sri Lanka Time Sri Lanka Time Sri Lanka Standard Time is the time zone for Sri Lanka. It is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of GMT/UTC .The Sri Lanka Time reverted on 15 April 2006 to match Indian Standard Time calculated from the Allahabad Observatory in India 82.5 ° longitude East of Greenwich, the reference point for...	UTC+05:30
SST	Samoa Standard Time Samoa Time Zone thumb\|right\|250px\|SST is [[UTC-11]]The Samoa Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eleven hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 165th meridian west west of the Greenwich Observatory.The zone includes the U.S...	UTC−11
SST	Singapore Standard Time Singapore Standard Time Singapore Standard Time or Singapore Time based in Singapore uses a time zone eight hours in advance of UTC .- History :...	UTC+08
TAHT	Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous... Time	UTC−10
THA	Thailand Standard Time	UTC+07
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time Coordinated Universal Time Coordinated Universal Time is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. Computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC for that purpose...	UTC
UYST	Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area... Summer Time	UTC−02
UYT	Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area... Standard Time	UTC−03
VET	Venezuelan Standard Time	UTC−04:30
VLAT	Vladivostok Time Vladivostok Time Vladivostok Time or VLAT, is a time zone in Russia, named after the city of Vladivostok. It is eleven hours ahead of UTC and seven hours ahead of Moscow Time .On 27 March 2011, Russia moved to year-round daylight saving time...	UTC+10 UTC+10 UTC+10 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +10. This time is used in:-As standard time :Australia QueenslandFederated States of Micronesia**Chuuk, Yap and surrounding area...
WAT	West Africa Time West Africa Time West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa . The zone is one hour ahead of UTC , which makes it the same as Central European Time...	UTC+01
WEDT	Western European Daylight Time	UTC+01
WEST	Western European Summer Time	UTC+01
WET	Western European Time Western European Time Western European Time , defined legally as Greenwich Mean Time in the United Kingdom, is the time zone covering parts of western and northwestern Europe, and includes the following countries and regions:...	UTC
WST	Western Standard Time	UTC+08
YAKT	Yakutsk Time Yakutsk Time Yakutsk Time or YAKT, is a time zone in Russia, named after Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha Republic. It is ten hours ahead of UTC and six hours ahead of Moscow Time .On 27 March 2011, Russia moved to year-round daylight saving time...	UTC+09
YEKT	Yekaterinburg Time Yekaterinburg Time Yekaterinburg Time is the time zone six hours ahead of UTC and 2 hours ahead of Moscow Time .In 2011, Russia moved to year-round daylight saving time...	UTC+05

External links

http://www.timegenie.com/timezones.php
http://hydra.nac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MHonArc/doc/resources/timezones.html
http://de.tikiwiki.org/xref-BRANCH-1-9/nav.html?lib/Date/TimeZone.php.source.html
http://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/pike-devel/2002-September/000252.html
http://timeanddate.com

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