Every Time Zone Converter (2024)

FAQs

Are there 40 time zones in the world? ›

Other nations, such as Nepal, use quarter-hour deviations. This means that there are approximately 40 time zones rather than 24.

As each time zone is 1 hour apart, we could expect that in the world there were 24 time zones, however, several time zones are separated by 30 and 45 minutes, so the total number of time zones is 40.

More Than 24 Time Zones

Also, the International Date Line (IDL), creates 3 time zones and several time zones are only 30 and 45 minutes apart. This makes the total number of time zones worldwide much higher.

Owing to the number of territories it governs beyond Europe, France has 12 (and for a period of the year 13) time zones. Metropolitan France operates on Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), while its dependencies range from Tahiti Time (UTC-10) in French Polynesia to Wallis & Futuna Time (UTC+12) in the South Pacific.

Time zones and time differences

There are time differences around the world based on “Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).” 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.

In May 1996, the government, faced with a major electricity crisis, changed standard time to GMT+6:30 then readjusted it to the more convenient GMT+6 a few months later.

So why are some cities 30 or 45 minutes off? That has largely to do with the politics in each of those places. For example, in New Delhi, India, they found themselves halfway between two meridians, and therefore decided to be 30 minutes between each, as opposed to adopting one time or the other.

Japan is 13 hours ahead of New York. Press any time in the table below to open and share the event time page.

There are actually six time zones in the USA. The four main ones are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Standard Time. The two others are Alaska Standard Time and Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, observed only by Alaska and Hawaii respectively.

Does in have 2 time zones? ›

Most of Indiana is in the Eastern time zone, except 12 counties* in northwest and southwest Indiana that have remained or changed to the Central time zone.

For any given date, the latest place on Earth where it would be valid is on Howland and Baker Islands, in the IDLW time zone (the Western Hemisphere side of the International Date Line). Therefore, the day ends AoE when it ends on Howland Island.

The maximum time difference between U.S. states is six hours. That is the difference between Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT; UTC-4) and Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST; UTC-10). 17 U.S. states are at least partially on EDT from March to November. Hawaii is always on HAST.

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.

We all have 24 hours in our day, but there are 38 time zones observed across the world offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and each country gets to pick the one it aligns with.

Time Zones Today

UTC is a time standard, not a time zone. No country “uses” UTC, but every country's time is based on UTC. Today, there are 37 time zones in use, and they often don't match up with their actual lines of longitude, but follow national and international borders.

There are a total of 41 different time zones, or offsets from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), including UTC itself, in use each year. The total is 40 if you don't count UTC-12, the time zone of Baker and Howland Islands, which are officially uninhabited.

Currently 38 Different Local Times in Use.