Time zone
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time-zone-166-15634856
title:
Time zone
text:
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. Each time zone is defined by a standard offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The offsets range from UTC−12:00 to UTC+14:00, and are usually a whole number of hours, but a few zone
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Area that observes a uniform standard time
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
date created:
2001-10-12T16:05:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T01:33:37Z
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13
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16