Time Zones

for use in The Conclave below, and one can download via the net the dxview program for timezone & map helps. view dxview screenshots

As the Conclave will be a world-wide voting for the Supreme Pontiff, we will be using GMT, which means Greenwich Mean Time to announce all scheduled times for the DueDate&Time of each ballot. This page tells you which time zone you are in, and the table lets you convert from your time to GMT.

There are 2 tables,

standard time, and
daylight saving time

You should use the correct table based on whether you are currently in Daylight savings time or Standard Time. To convert to GMT, find your time zone in the correct table, and apply the (+) or (-) number of hours to get to GMT. To translate from GMT back to your local time, do the mathematical opposite, ie. for (+) do a subtraction, and for (-) do an addition.

For those with Internet access, you may also visit the website named Burbs Time Zone Convert. The program here will convert automatically FROM your local time to GMT or from GMT or TO your local time.

There are 25 integer World Time Zones from -12 through 0 (GMT) to +12. Each one is 15° of Longitude as measured East and West from the Prime Meridian of the World at Greenwich, England.

Each Time Zone is measured relative to Greenwich, England. There are both civilian designations which are typically three letter abbreviations (e.g. EST) for most time zones. In addition there are military designations. These use each letter of the alphabet (except 'i') and are known by their phonetic equivalent. E.G. Greenwich Mean Time (civilian) or z = Zulu (military and aviation).

See Time Table pdf

Standard (or Winter Time) Zones

GMT	Military	Phonetic	Civilian Time Zones
+0:00	z	Zulu	`GMT` - Greenwich Mean `UT` or `UTC` - Universal (Co-ordinated) `WET` - Western European
+1:00	a	Alpha	`WAT` - West Africa
+2:00	b	Bravo	`AT` - Azores
+3:00	c	Charlie
+4:00	d	Delta	`AST` - Atlantic Standard
+5:00	e	Echo	`EST` - Eastern Standard.
+6:00	f	Foxtrot	`CST` - Central Standard
+7:00	g	Golf	`MST` - Mountain Standard.
+8:00	h	Hotel	`PST` - Pacific Standard
+9:00	j	Juliet	`YST` - Yukon Standard.
+10:00	k	Kilo	`AHST` - Alaska-Hawaii Standard `CAT` - Central Alaska `HST` - Hawaii Standard
+11:00	l	Lima	`NT` - Nome.
+12:00	m	Mike	`IDLW` - International Date Line West
-1:00	n	November	`CET` - Central European `FWT` - French Winter `MET` - Middle European `MEWT` - Middle European Winter `SWT` - Swedish Winter.
-2:00	o	Oscar	`EET` - Eastern European, USSR Zone 1
-3:00	p	Papa	`BT` - Baghdad, USSR Zone 2
-4:00	q	Quebec	`ZP4` - USSR Zone 3
-5:00	r	Romeo	`ZP5` - USSR Zone 4.
-6:00	s	Sierra	`ZP6` - USSR Zone 5.
-7:00	t	Tango	`WAST` - West Australian Standard.
-8:00	u	Uniform	`CCT` - China Coast, USSR Zone 7
-9:00	v	Victor	`JST` - Japan Standard, USSR Zone 8
-10:00	w	Whiskey	`EAST` - East Australian Standard `GST` - Guam Standard, USSR Zone 9
-11:00	x	X-ray
-12:00	y	Yankee	`IDLE` - International Date Line East `NZST` - New Zealand Standard `NZT` - New Zealand

Summer Time (or Daylight Savings) Time Zones

There are many Daylight Savings Time (DST) time-zones, indexed by the zone hour value relative to both Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and British Summer Time (BST).

GMT	BST	In Force (1997)	Civilian Time
-1:00	+0:00	March 30 - October 26	`BST` - British Summer.
+0:00	+1:00
+1:00	+2:00
+2:00	+3:00
+3:00	+4:00		`ADT` - Atlantic Daylight
+4:00	+5:00		`EDT` - Eastern Daylight.
+5:00	+6:00		`CDT` - Central Daylight
+6:00	+7:00		`MDT` - Mountain Daylight.
+7:00	+8:00		`PDT` - Pacific Daylight.
+8:00	+9:00		`YDT` - Yukon Daylight.
+9:00	+10:00		`HDT` - Hawaii Daylight.
+10:00	+11:00
+11:00	+12:00
-2:00	-1:00		`MEST` - Middle European Summer `MESZ` - Middle European Summer `SST` - Swedish Summer `FST` - French Summer.
-3:00	-2:00
-4:00	-3:00
-5:00	-4:00
-6:00	-5:00
-7:00	-6:00
-8:00	-7:00		`WADT` - West Australian Daylight
-9:00	-8:00
-10:00	-9:00
-11:00	-10:00		`EADT` - Eastern Australian Daylight
-12:00	-11:00
-13:00	-12:00		`NZDT` - New Zealand Daylight.

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