Another odd time-zone border lies in Europe where also mostly due to political reasons going west from France lets you stay in the same time zone when you should have to change from Central European time to UTC or even UTC-1 but going north from France to Britain you will have to change time-zone | Crossing the Date Line going eastward, clocks are turned back a full 24 hours, and vice versa in the opposite direction |
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Africa Standard Time UTC+03:00 EAT 265 Tasmania: Hobart Tasmania Standard Time UTC+10:00 TAST 205 Thailand: Bangkok SE Asia Standard Time UTC+07:00 THA 235 Timor-Leste Tokyo Standard Time UTC+09:00 TST 275 Tinian Island West Pacific Standard Time UTC+10:00 WPST 090 Togo Greenwich Standard Time UTC GMT 002 Tokelau Hawaiian Standard Time UTC-10:00 HST 300 Tonga: Nuku'alofa Tonga Standard Time UTC+13:00 TOT 055 Trinidad and Tobago SA Western Standard Time UTC-04:00 SAWST 090 Tristan da Cunha Greenwich Standard Time UTC GMT 110 Tunisia W | Gotta use this site again |
However, due to size constraint, some implementations or distributions do not include it.
13Many of them are in increments of a half hour, different from the usual hour difference you normally see | Skewing of time zones DST never observed Ideal time zones, such as nautical time zones, are based on the mean solar time of a particular meridian located in the middle of that zone with boundaries located 7 |
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This typically involves advancing by an near the start of and adjusting back in "spring forward", "fall back" | As a rule, the whole hours offsets are observed, but the 30 minutes or 45 minutes offsets are also possible |
It's caused by rapid travel across time zones, and compounded by the fact that long hours spent on a plane can cause you to sleep too much, or not enough, possibly at the wrong time.