This is a list representing
time zone
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, Commerce, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between Country, countries and their Administrative division, subdivisions instead of ...
s by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of
dependent territories
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, yet remains politically outside the controlli ...
(except
Antarctic claims).
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including
its claim in Antarctica). Many countries have
daylight saving time
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time or simply daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typicall ...
, one added hour during the local summer, but this list does not include that information. The
UTC offset in the list is not valid in practice during daylight saving time.
See also
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Time zone
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, Commerce, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between Country, countries and their Administrative division, subdivisions instead of ...
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Lists of time zones
International:
* List of time zones by country – sorted by number of current time zones in the world
* List of UTC time offsets – current UTC offsets
* List of time zone abbreviations – abbreviations
* List of tz database time zones – zon ...
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List of UTC time offsets
This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during st ...
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Time zone abolition
The abolition of time zones involves replacing time zones with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as a local time.
History
For most of part of history, the position of the sun was used for timekeeping. During the 19th century, most towns kept t ...
References
{{Geography country lists
Time zones
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
Time zones
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
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Time zones
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...