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Gmt time zones
Gmt time zones












It helps to make the daylight duration longer in summer by setting clock 1 hour forward in the spring (start of DST period) and setting them 1 hour backward in autumn when the DST period is over. Although many time zones have descriptive names used by people in them, they are least ambiguously identified by their relationship to UTC (Universal Time. The Daylight Saving Time (DST) is widely used in Europe and North America, and also in some parts of Africa, Australia, South America. The countries with multiple time zones in the mainland area (some of them also have the insular territories) are Russia, USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kiribati, Micronesia, Chile, Spain, Portugal, and Ecuador. Time Zones West of Greenwich GMT-6, Central Standard Time (CST), S (Sierra) GMT-7, Mountain Standard Time (MST), T (Tango) GMT-8, Pacific Standard Time (PST). The situation is the same in the United Kingdom, Denmark, New Zealand, Netherlands. For example, the original thirteen colonies of the United States were all located within this zone on the east coast of the continent. There is a great deal of history in this part of the world.

gmt time zones

There are independent states with multiple time zones, and the record-holder is France with 12 zones, but 11 of them are used in overseas areas and only one in the country's mainland. On a global map, the Greenwich time zone is located at zero degree longitude and the Eastern time zone is located at 75 degrees west. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. All the observed world time zones are listed by country (or territory) in the table below.














Gmt time zones