Time Zone Names

MAYBE . . .
Interesting question. This might be a site to begin a search for time zone names - worth a try:

Good luck! :-)

TIME ZONE BACKGROUND

I found a website...
Here's Oceania, but no names

Here's a list of all time zone abbreviations in alpha order:

Time Zone Abbreviations

Ceili, India time is also a half hour difference from GMT, and Nepal's time is .25 hour difference. If one looks at a world map, the time zones are not vertical straight lines. It zig-zags all over, and some time zones overlap.

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Hello, thanks for the info so far. I should have asked the question differently, I think.
What I'm curious is, for example, in Mexico - fealola are the names we use in Canada the same ones used in spanish but a translation or are they different? (I think you live in Mexico)
In India do they have names that differ from the names used in Russia?
I hope I made it clearer.
Ceili

Mexico time zone names can be found at this link.http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/tmx1.html

(Nearly) All time zone names are called up here

Time zone abbreviations

Thanks, c.i. and Walter
So then, If I read the last sites correctly, most other time zone don't have actual names. Just GMT =/-.
Is this a western phenomenon. Do people in africa call the time zones bisecting their continent british or central european timezone or do they refrain from calling them anything at all or something else altogether? Do people in Brazil call thier time zone Atlantic or is just brazilian?

Walter, how do you refer to time zones in Germany, is it the same as on the map, or another name - in german of course.
Thanks again,
Ceili

We just say "West Europopean [Summer] Time" for the one here, mostly "local time" to times in other zones (or the 'proper' name).

Since we and all of our neighbouring countries are livingin one and the same time zone, this is actually not a problem at all - naming them, I mean.

interesting,
Most of canada follows the spring ahead - fall back ritual or daylight/standard change each year but Saskatchewan, which does not change the clocks. They decided, way back in the day that farmers would be unduly affected - they didn't want to mess with milk cows routine, so they don't follow the rest of us. Does all europe change with the season or are there a few hold outs?

All changing at the same dates now, besides ...

Well, I'm rather sure, most European countries change:

in 2003: the Sundays of 30 March and 26 October,
in 2004: the Sundays of 28 March and 31 October,
in 2005: the Sundays of 27 March and 30 October,
in 2006: the Sundays of 26 March and 29 October,
in 2007: the Sundays of 25 March and 28 October, etc.

The following is the examples of "Region/City" type zone names between GMT-0400 to GMT+0400.


GMT-4
America/Anguilla
America/Antigua
America/Aruba
America/Asuncion
America/Barbados
America/Boa_Vista
America/Caracas
America/Cuiaba
America/Curacao
America/Dominica
America/Glace_Bay
America/Goose_Bay
America/Grenada
America/Guadeloupe
America/Guyana
America/Halifax
America/La_Paz
America/Manaus
America/Martinique
America/Montserrat
America/Port_of_Spain
America/Porto_Velho
America/Puerto_Rico
America/Santiago
America/Santo_Domingo
America/St_Kitts
America/St_Lucia
America/St_Thomas
America/St_Vincent
America/Thule
America/Tortola
America/Virgin
Antarctica/Palmer
Atlantic/Bermuda
Atlantic/Stanley
Brazil/West
Canada/Atlantic
Chile/Continental

GMT-3
America/Araguaina
America/Belem
America/Buenos_Aires
America/Catamarca
America/Cayenne
America/Cordoba
America/Fortaleza
America/Godthab
America/Jujuy
America/Maceio
America/Mendoza
America/Miquelon
America/Montevideo
America/Paramaribo
America/Recife
America/Rosario
America/Sao_Paulo
Brazil/East

GMT-2
America/Noronha
Atlantic/South_Georgia
Brazil/DeNoronha

GMT-1
America/Scoresbysund
Atlantic/Azores
Atlantic/Cape_Verde

GMT+0
Africa/Abidjan
Africa/Accra
Africa/Bamako
Africa/Banjul
Africa/Bissau
Africa/Casablanca
Africa/Conakry
Africa/Dakar
Africa/El_Aaiun
Africa/Freetown
Africa/Lome
Africa/Monrovia
Africa/Nouakchott
Africa/Ouagadougou
Africa/Sao_Tome
Africa/Timbuktu
America/Danmarkshavn
Atlantic/Canary
Atlantic/Faeroe
Atlantic/Madeira
Atlantic/Reykjavik
Atlantic/St_Helena
Europe/Lisbon
Europe/London

GMT+1
Africa/Algiers
Africa/Bangui
Africa/Brazzaville
Africa/Ceuta
Africa/Douala
Africa/Kinshasa
Africa/Lagos
Africa/Libreville
Africa/Luanda
Africa/Malabo
Africa/Ndjamena
Africa/Niamey
Africa/Porto-Novo
Africa/Tunis
Africa/Windhoek
Arctic/Longyearbyen
Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
Europe/Amsterdam
Europe/Andorra
Europe/Belgrade
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Bratislava
Europe/Brussels
Europe/Budapest
Europe/Copenhagen
Europe/Gibraltar
Europe/Ljubljana
Europe/Luxembourg
Europe/Madrid
Europe/Malta
Europe/Monaco
Europe/Oslo
Europe/Paris
Europe/Prague
Europe/Rome
Europe/San_Marino
Europe/Sarajevo
Europe/Skopje
Europe/Stockholm
Europe/Tirane
Europe/Vaduz
Europe/Vatican
Europe/Vienna
Europe/Warsaw
Europe/Zagreb
Europe/Zurich


GMT+2
Africa/Blantyre
Africa/Bujumbura
Africa/Cairo
Africa/Gaborone
Africa/Harare
Africa/Johannesburg
Africa/Kigali
Africa/Lubumbashi
Africa/Lusaka
Africa/Maputo
Africa/Maseru
Africa/Mbabane
Africa/Tripoli
Asia/Amman
Asia/Beirut
Asia/Damascus
Asia/Gaza
Asia/Istanbul
Asia/Jerusalem
Asia/Nicosia
Asia/Tel_Aviv
Europe/Athens
Europe/Bucharest
Europe/Chisinau
Europe/Helsinki
Europe/Istanbul
Europe/Kaliningrad
Europe/Kiev
Europe/Minsk
Europe/Nicosia
Europe/Riga
Europe/Simferopol
Europe/Sofia
Europe/Tallinn
Europe/Tiraspol
Europe/Uzhgorod
Europe/Vilnius
Europe/Zaporozhye


GMT+3
Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Africa/Djibouti
Africa/Kampala
Africa/Khartoum
Africa/Mogadishu
Africa/Nairobi
Antarctica/Syowa
Asia/Aden
Asia/Baghdad
Asia/Bahrain
Asia/Kuwait
Asia/Qatar
Asia/Riyadh
Europe/Moscow
Indian/Antananarivo
Indian/Comoro
Indian/Mayotte

GMT+4
Asia/Aqtau
Asia/Baku
Asia/Dubai
Asia/Muscat
Asia/Oral
Asia/Tbilisi
Asia/Yerevan
Europe/Samara
Indian/Mahe
Indian/Mauritius
Indian/Reunion

satt

I don't know about other continents, but here in Europe we honestly don't say just "Europe" for our time zone, but e.g. 'British Summer Time', 'West European Time' etc. :wink:

Walter..
Mine is those of the "region/city" format commonly used on many OS.