time zone

Also known as timezone

region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes

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A time zone is a subclass of time standard and region. It is categorized under the main category of time zones and has a corresponding Commons category. The subject is associated with a list of time zones and is described at a specific URL on GitHub regarding the Who's On First project.

The topic has templates for infoboxes and UTC time offsets. It is included in the focus list of Wikipedia for vital articles. The concept is also tagged on Stack Exchange and has an equivalent class defined by the W3C time ontology. OpenStreetMap uses a specific boundary tag for time zones. The subject is referenced by 455,328 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: region
Image: World Time Zones Map.png

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Commons category: Time zones
topic's main category: Category:Time zones
has list: list of time zones
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/timezone
topic has template: Template:UTC time offsets
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
described at URL: github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-placetypes#timezone
equivalent class: www.w3.org/2006/time#TimeZone
OpenStreetMap tag: boundary=timezone
Commons gallery: Timezone

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Encyclopedic overview

Time zones of the world

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “time zone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.