Every Time Zone Converter (2024)

FAQs

Is every time zone 1 hour? ›

Time zones and time differences

There are 24 regions (Time Zones) around the world with a time difference of one hour. This system has been adopted internationally by setting the total time difference around the world as 24 hours. Further, Daylight Saving Time (DST) is individually adopted in countries and regions.

There are six time zones in the US main country. The 50 US states are spread across the six standard time zones. With dependencies (inhabited and uninhabited), however, the total count comes to 11 time zones.

Eastern Time Zone (ET): UTC-05:00 – includes 22 states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, including some parts of Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the Caribbean islands.

The country that is 24 hours ahead of the USA is Tonga [1]. Tonga is located in the Pacific Ocean and is in the UTC+13 time zone, making it the first country to greet each new day.

By 1929, the majority of countries had adopted hourly time zones, though some countries such as Iran, India, Myanmar and parts of Australia had time zones with a 30-minute offset. Nepal was the last country to adopt a standard offset, shifting slightly to UTC+05:45 in 1986.

Russia was divided into eleven time zones in 1919, after the Bolshevik Revolution. Russia is a huge country by area expanding from east to west in the northern hemisphere and therefore, the country felt the need to adopt 11 time zones. The time in Russia ranges from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00.

China has one time zone. It is officially called China Standard Time (CST). It is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+08:00). There is no daylight saving time.

In Russia, there are eleven time zones with current times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Since October 26, 2014, Russia has not used daylight saving time (DST).

Yes, Pacific Standard Time (PST) is three hours behind Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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What is ET in America? ›

ET is five hours behind UTC in winter, which is called Eastern Standard Time (EST). It is four hours behind UTC during summer Daylight saving time, when it is called Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The largest city in the Eastern Time Zone is New York, the largest city in the United States.

Each time zone is separated by one hour. If it's 1:00 in the Pacific Time Zone, it's 2:00 in the Mountain Time Zone, it's 3:00 in the Central Time Zone, and it's 4:00 in the Atlantic Time Zone.

Ideally, time zones would be slices of Earth's surface 15 degrees of longitude wide that keep the same time. However, some countries and parts of countries have decided that being within a specific time zone is not preferable and have chosen offsets of 30 minutes or even 45 minutes.

At the equator, the time zones are a little over 1,000 miles (1,609 km) apart, so to cross one every hour, your plane would have to fly at over 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 kph). If you started flying at 12:00 noon, at 1:00 p.m. (according to your watch) you would cross a time zone, making it 12:00 noon again.

Half-hour time zones

There are a few countries which decided to adhere to this particular time of time zone, such as Iran, which runs on GMT+3:30. India, too, runs on UTC+5:30 (GMT+5:30). Some other examples are Afghanistan, running on GMT+4:30 and Burma, which uses GMT+6:30.