UTC+13:00 is an identifier for a
time offset from UTC of +13:00. Because it does not contain any land in the
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's Nort ...
, this time zone is exclusive to the
Southern Hemisphere.
As standard time (year-round)
''Principal cities:
Apia,
Atafu,
Nukuʻalofa''
Oceania
Micronesia
*Kiribati
**
Phoenix Islands
Polynesia
*New Zealand
**
Tokelau –
Time in Tokelau
Time in New Zealand is divided by law into two standard time zones. The main islands use New Zealand Standard Time (NZST), 12 hours in advance of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) / military M (Mike), while the outlying Chatham Islands use Cha ...
*Samoa –
Time in Samoa
*Tonga
As daylight saving time (Southern Hemisphere summer)
''Principal cities:
Wellington,
Auckland,
Suva
Suva () is the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is the home of the country's largest metropolitan area and serves as its major port. The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Divi ...
''
Oceania
Melanesia
*Fiji
Australasia
*New Zealand (except
Chatham Islands) –
New Zealand Daylight Time
Time in New Zealand is divided by law into two standard time zones. The main islands use New Zealand Standard Time (NZST), 12 hours in advance of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) / military M (Mike), while the outlying Chatham Islands use ...
Antarctica
*Some research bases in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...
, in particular the
South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole, Terrestrial South Pole or 90th Parallel South, is one of the two points where Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipod ...
and the
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Un ...
. At
New Year
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, these places are the first in the world to see the
Sun, which is then
visible at midnight.
History
Kiribati
Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),[Kiribati]
''The Wor ...
introduced a change for its eastern half on 31 December 1994, from time zones
UTC−11:00 and
UTC−10:00 to UTC+13:00 and
UTC+14:00, to avoid having the country divided by the
International Date Line
The International Date Line (IDL) is an internationally accepted demarcation on the surface of Earth, running between the South and North Poles and serving as the boundary between one calendar day and the next. It passes through the Pacific ...
.
Tonga has been on UTC+13:00 for many years.
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 (typical ...
was used in the southern summer seasons from October 1999 to January 2002, and from November 2016 to January 2017 (written 2017).
Clock Changes in Nukualofa, Tonga
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UTC+13:00 was used till 2009 as a daylight time (summer in Northern Hemisphere) in the most eastern parts of Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...
(Chukotka and Kamchatka) that used Kamchatka Time
Kamchatka Time or Petropavlovsk Time (PETT; russian: камчатское время, ''kamchatskoye vremya''), also known as Anadyr Time (ANAT), is a time zone in Russia, named after the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is 12 hours ahead of UTC ( U ...
.
At the end of (UTC−10:00), Samoa advanced its standard time from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 (and its daylight saving time from UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00), essentially moving the international date line to the other side of the country.
See also
* Time in New Zealand
*Time in Russia
There are eleven time zones in Russia (within its internationally recognized borders), which currently observe times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Daylight saving time (DST) has not been used in Russia since 26 October 2014. From 27 March ...
* Time in Samoa
* UTC−11:00, which is exactly one day behind UTC+13:00.
* UTC−12:00, the last time zone to start a new day
References
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UTC offsets