Time zones Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes
About Time zones
—William Shakespeare, Sonnet 60 Although many time zones have descriptive names used by people in them, they are least ambiguously identified by their relationship toUTC(Universal Time, Co-ordinated).GMT(Greenwich Mean Time) is nearly synonymous, named after the Royal Observatory located in theGreenwicharea of London, but its definitions have varied over time and may vary slightly by context. UTC is also sometimes calledZorZulutime. A time may be written as e.g. 21:45Z with the Z indicating UTC. The "Z" is for "zero", and "Zulu" is the two-way radio pronunciation of "Z". It comes from the nautical system in which each time zone was assigned a letter. Time zones east of UTC and west of the International Date Line are specified by the number of hoursaheadof UTC (e.g. UTC+4); zones west of UT
Time zones Travel Guide Sections
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