UTC+13:00
| UTC+13:00 | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | |
 World map with the time zone highlighted | |
| UTC offset | |
| UTC | UTC+13:00 |
| Current time | |
| 12:03, 6 October 2024UTC+13:00[refresh] | |
| Centralmeridian | |
| 165 degrees W | |
| Date-time group | |
UTC+13:00is an identifier for atime offset from UTCof +13:00. Because it does not contain any land in theNorthern Hemisphere,this time zone is exclusive to theSouthern Hemisphere.
As standard time (year-round)
[edit]Principal cities:Apia,Atafu,Nukuʻalofa
Oceania
[edit]Micronesia
[edit]- Kiribati
Polynesia
[edit]- New Zealand
- Samoa –Time in Samoa[2][3][4]
- Tonga
As daylight saving time (Southern Hemisphere summer)
[edit]Principal cities:Auckland,Wellington,Christchurch,Suva,Nadi
Oceania
[edit]Australasia
[edit]- New Zealand (exceptChatham Islands) –New Zealand Daylight Time
Antarctica
[edit]- Some research bases inAntarctica,in particular theSouth Poleand theMcMurdo Station.AtNew Year,these places are the first in the world to see theSun,which is thenvisible at midnight.
History
[edit]Kiribatiintroduced a change for its eastern half on 31 December 1994, from time zonesUTC−11:00andUTC−10:00to UTC+13:00 andUTC+14:00,to avoid having the country divided by theInternational Date Line.
Tonga has been on UTC+13:00 for many years.Daylight saving timewas used in the southern summer seasons from October 1999 to January 2002, and from November 2016 to January 2017 (written 2017).[5]
UTC+13:00 was used until 2009 as a daylight time (summer in Northern Hemisphere) in the easternmost parts ofRussia(Chukotka and Kamchatka) that usedKamchatka Time.
At the end of29 December 2011(UTC−10:00), Samoa advanced its standard time from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 (and its daylight saving time from UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00), essentially moving the international date line to the other side of the country, skipping30 December 2011.[2][3]Following Samoa's decision, Tokelau also simultaneously advanced its standard time (used without daylight saving time), from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00.[1][3]
See also
[edit]- Time in New Zealand
- Time in Russia
- Time in Samoa
- UTC−11:00,which is exactly one day behind UTC+13:00.
- UTC−12:00,the last time zone to start a new day
References
[edit]- ^ab"Tokelau: Wrong local time for over 100 years".timeanddate.
- ^abMcCabe, Joanne (May 9, 2011)."Samoa to change time zones and move forward by a day".Metro.Archivedfrom the original on December 28, 2012.
- ^abc"Samoa and Tokelau skip a day for dateline change".BBC News.December 30, 2011.Archivedfrom the original on December 10, 2014.RetrievedMay 26,2018.
- ^"Daylight savings scrapped".Samoa Observer.20 September 2021.Retrieved23 September2021.
- ^Clock Changes in Nukualofa, Tonga