Time Zone is a Term to describe the local time of a Region or a Country. The local Time within a Time Zone Map is described by its offset (difference) from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It is the world’s time standard. UTC time changes 1 hour forward and backward corresponding to a 1-hour difference in mean solar time for every 15 degrees east or west of the prime meridian (0° longitude) in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom. The offset is expressed as either UTC- or UTC+ and the number of hours and minutes. Time in the USA.
There is a 9-time zone in the Time Zone Map of the USA and its dependencies. however, adding the time zones of 2 uninhabited US territories gives 11 time zones in total.
|Time Zone||Standard Time Offset||DST Offset|
|Pacific Standard Time (PST)||UTC-8||UTC-7|
|Mountain Standard Time (MST)||UTC-7||UTC-6|
|Central Standard Time (CST)||UTC-6||UTC-5|
|Eastern Standard Time (EST)||UTC-5||UTC-4|
|Alaska Standard Time (AKST)||UTC-9||UTC-9|
|Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST)||UTC-10||UTC-10|
Time Zones In the US
Generalized Time Zone Maps of the USA are often called by their generic name, without distinguishing between standard time and Daylight Saving Time.
US Time Zone Map
|Offset||Time Zone Abbreviation & Name||Example City|
|UTC -10||HAST||Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time||Honolulu|
|UTC -9||AKST||Alaska Standard Time||Anchorage|
|UTC -8||PST||Pacific Standard Time||Los Angeles|
|UTC -7||MST||Mountain Standard Time||Salt Lake City|
|UTC -6||CST||Central Standard Time||Chicago|
|UTC -5||EST||Eastern Standard Time||New York|
Daylight Saving Time in USA begins at 2:00 a.m. local time on the second Sunday in March. On the first Sunday in November areas on Daylight Saving Time return to Standard Time at 2:00 a.m. The names in each time zone change along with Daylight Saving Time. Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and so forth.
✅What are the 6 Time Zones in the USA?
The time zones in America are divided into six time zones: Hawaii-Aleutian time, Alaska time, Pacific time, Mountain time, Central time, and Eastern time. Does Alaska actually have a time zone all its own? This, called the Alaska time zone, covers almost every piece of the state.
✅Time Zone Map USA
Gulf is the only county in Florida with two time zones. Cities close to the time zone in Gulf County include Mexico Beach, Port St. Joe, Wewahitchka, and Apalachicola. All states but Hawaii and Arizona (except the Navajo Nation) observe DST.