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⇒ Special Abbreviations, Acronyms, Symbols & Terms Used On This Website.
⇒ Country 2 & 3 Letter Abbreviations and Dialing Codes.
⇒ Canada 2 Letter Province & Territory Abbreviations.
⇒ United States 2 Letter State & Territory Abbreviations.
⇒ Language 2 Letter Abbreviations.
⇒ Dates & Times Formats and Abbreviations: YYMMDD-HHmm, AM, PM,+.
⇒ Notation of Time: UTC, Time Zones and Time Offsets, Time Zone Abbreviations.
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Special Abbreviations, Acronyms, Symbols & Terms
Used On This Website

⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓ USAGE & MEANING
$ us$‚ Dollars‚ Greenbacks‚ Bucks‚ Cabbage‚ Dough‚ Moola‚ Wampum.
@ Used in email addresses (Example: name@website.com)
Used in email addresses in place of "@" to fool Bots & Crawlers.
- Dash between "YEARS MFR’d" = "Beginning"-"Ending" (example: 1976-1987).
- ^  Trailing Dash without an Ending Date = Still in Production/Marketed/Available.
A "∼" (Tilde) between "YEARS MFR’d" = "Beginning"∼"Ending" (example: 1976∼1987).
^  Trailing Tilde without an Ending Date = Still in Production/Marketed/Available.
~ A "~" (Tilde) at the beginning of a webpage title indicates that the page has two versions: One for signed in Academy Members and another for non-members. If there is a space between the "~" and the title‚ this indicates that the page/article is not finished yet (still "under development")‚ and may contain rough drafts and resource materials.
~ Range from "X" thru to "Y" (as in 1965~1980‚ A~Z‚+). Read "to" or "thru".
» Used in Page PATH to show path from Main Topic pages.
Comma used in PATH to show listed topics are on same level and not subordinate.
Used in PATH to indicate that following lines follow the same PATH. Example: "HOME" Path.
Used in Page PATH to indicate "Same Page PATH as above".
_>_ Used to show progression such as when an entity becomes another (ex. Chrysler > Force).
Used the same as above to show progression.
Used in "Page Contents" to hold "Link" to section on page.
^ Referring to‚ part of and/or subordinate to the line item above.
^ The "^" is used in the "Page Contents"‚ in "Tables" (like it is being used here) and elsewhere.
Ξ Used as a placeholder indicating text‚ picture‚+ to be added later. Example: ΞPIXΞ
+ Used as a placeholder (for text‚ data‚ pictures‚+) to be added later.
‚+ Plus Additional Items. Usage is like "etc." (as used in two lines immediately ^above^)
' 1900's (such as OoB'94 Means OUT of BUSINESS in 1994).
2000's  (such as OoP"12 Means OUT of PRODUCTION in 2012).
XXX? or XX?? Undetermined digit as in 197? or 19?? with last digit(s) of year undetermined).
¿xxx? Unconfirmed "xxx" (information). (OLD format – Being phased out – See next item)
? or …? Unconfirmed "…" (information) w/question mark "?" in smaller font)
[xxx] Brackets containing additional "xxx" information added by Editor to clarify or expand content of the article.
{Ed} Editor (usually the EAB Editor)
2sc Two Stroke Cycle.
4sc Four Stroke Cycle.
A∼Z Alphabetical Listing.
BLUE Words with blue colored letters that turn Lighter Blue and underlined when hovered over represent a "clickable link".
BHP Brake Horsepower.
Capts Captains (Plural of Capt. and Captain)
cc Cubic Centimeter(s) (cm³) (such as in engine displacement).
ci Cubic Inches (in³) (such as in engine displacement).
cm Centimeter(s).
cyc Cycle‚ Cycles (60cyc = 60 Cycle AC).
CXLD CANCELLED
DE German.
EAB EverythingAboutBoats.org
ed Education.
eg Latin "exempli gratia" means "for example" or "for the sake of an example"‚ e.g.  ("." (periods) are often left off on this website).
EN English.
ES Spanish.
etc. Latin "et cetera" means "and so forth". On this website‚ "etc." may appear without a "." (period) if followed by ")" (parenthesis). Example: (boats‚ motors‚ etc)
Eq Equipment.
Equip Equipment.
FR French.
HP or hp Horsepower.
I.D. Inside Diameter (Sometimes shown as ID).
ID Inside Diameter (Sometimes shown as I.D.).
ie Latin "id est" takes the place of the English phrases "that is"‚ "in other words"‚ "namely"‚ i.e. ("." (periods) are often left off on this website).
in Inch‚ Inches.
incl. includes or including.
INDIGO Words with Indigo colored letters represent email.
IT Italian.
kW Kilowatt(s).
L Liter(s) or Litre(s) (such as in "5.7L" engine displacement).
MAGENTA Words with magenta colored letters in the middle represent boilerplate placeholders that will eventually be replaced by the actual name‚ brand‚ manufacturer‚ link‚+.
MHP Metric Horsepower.
mm Millimeter(s).
N/G No Good (Such as in "LINK N/G" = Bad Link).
NLA No Longer Available (Such as in "Article NLA").
O.D. Outside Diameter (Sometimes shown as OD).
OD Outside Diameter (Sometimes shown as O.D.).
OoB OUT of BUSINESS (such as "OoB'94" Means OUT of BUSINESS in 1994).
OoP OUT of PRODUCTION (such as "OoP"12" Means OUT of PRODUCTION in 2012).
pg Page (as in "pg1" means page #1‚ then 2‚ 3‚ etc) or pages (as in "9pg" means 9 pages long).
PIX Picture (as in "PIX1" means Picture #1‚ then 2‚ 3‚ etc).
PIXs Pictures (plural).
PT Portuguese. "s"
RPM or rpm Revolutions per minute.
…s A lower case "s" at the end of an abbreviation (eg "PIXs") indicates that it is plural.
sc Stroke Cycle (as in 2sc = Two Stroke Cycle and 4sc = Four Stroke Cycle).
SHP SAE Horsepower.
sHP Shaft Horsepower.
TBA To Be Announced.
TBD To Be Determined.
us$ United States Dollars (USD).
Wampum Money

Country 2 & 3 Letter Abbreviations, and Dialing Codes

COUNTRY A2 (ISO) A3 (UN) NUM (UN) DIALING CODE
Afghanistan AF AFG 4 93
Albania AL ALB 8 355
Algeria DZ DZA 12 213
American Samoa AS ASM 16 1-684
Andorra AD AND 20 376
Angola AO AGO 24 244
Anguilla AI AIA 660 1-264
Antarctica AQ ATA 10 672
Antigua and Barbuda AG ATG 28 1-268
Argentina AR ARG 32 54
Armenia AM ARM 51 374
Aruba AW ABW 533 297
Australia AU AUS 36 61
Austria AT AUT 40 43
Azerbaijan AZ AZE 31 994
Bahamas BS BHS 44 1-242
Bahrain BH BHR 48 973
Bangladesh BD BGD 50 880
Barbados BB BRB 52 1-246
Belarus BY BLR 112 375
Belgium BE BEL 56 32
Belize BZ BLZ 84 501
Benin BJ BEN 204 229
Bermuda BM BMU 60 1-441
Bhutan BT BTN 64 975
Bolivia BO BOL 68 591
Bonaire BQ BES 535 599
Bosnia and Herzegovina BA BIH 70 387
Botswana BW BWA 72 267
Bouvet Island BV BVT 74 47
Brazil BR BRA 76 55
British Indian Ocean Territory IO IOT 86 246
Brunei Darussalam BN BRN 96 673
Bulgaria BG BGR 100 359
Burkina Faso BF BFA 854 226
Burundi BI BDI 108 257
Cambodia KH KHM 116 855
Cameroon CM CMR 120 237
Canada CA CAN 124 1
Cape Verde CV CPV 132 238
Cayman Islands KY CYM 136 1-345
Central African Republic CF CAF 140 236
Chad TD TCD 148 235
Chile CL CHL 152 56
China CN CHN 156 86
Christmas Island CX CXR 162 61
Cocos (Keeling) Islands CC CCK 166 61
Colombia CO COL 170 57
Comoros KM COM 174 269
Congo CG COG 178 242
Democratic Republic of the Congo CD COD 180 243
Cook Islands CK COK 184 682
Costa Rica CR CRI 188 506
Croatia HR HRV 191 385
Cuba CU CUB 192 53
Curaçao CW CUW 531 599
Cyprus CY CYP 196 357
Czech Republic CZ CZE 203 420
Côte d'Ivoire CI CIV 384 225
Denmark DK DNK 208 45
Djibouti DJ DJI 262 253
Dominica DM DMA 212 1-767
Dominican Republic DO DOM 214 1-809‚1-829‚1-849
Ecuador EC ECU 218 593
Egypt EG EGY 818 20
El Salvador SV SLV 222 503
Equatorial Guinea GQ GNQ 226 240
Eritrea ER ERI 232 291
Estonia EE EST 233 372
Ethiopia ET ETH 231 251
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) FK FLK 238 500
Faroe Islands FO FRO 234 298
Fiji FJ FJI 242 679
Finland FI FIN 246 358
France FR FRA 250 33
French Guiana GF GUF 254 594
French Polynesia PF PYF 258 689
French Southern Territories TF ATF 260 262
Gabon GA GAB 266 241
Gambia GM GMB 270 220
Georgia GE GEO 268 995
Germany DE DEU 276 49
Ghana GH GHA 288 233
Gibraltar GI GIB 292 350
Greece GR GRC 300 30
Greenland GL GRL 304 299
Grenada GD GRD 308 1-473
Guadeloupe GP GLP 312 590
Guam GU GUM 316 1-671
Guatemala GT GTM 320 502
Guernsey GG GGY 831 44
Guinea GN GIN 324 224
Guinea-Bissau GW GNB 624 245
Guyana GY GUY 328 592
Haiti HT HTI 332 509
Heard Island and McDonald Islands HM HMD 334 672
Holy See (Vatican City State) VA VAT 336 379
Honduras HN HND 340 504
Hong Kong HK HKG 344 852
Hungary HU HUN 348 36
Iceland IS ISL 352 354
India IN IND 356 91
Indonesia ID IDN 360 62
Iran‚ Islamic Republic of IR IRN 364 98
Iraq IQ IRQ 368 964
Ireland IE IRL 372 353
Isle of Man IM IMN 833 44
Israel IL ISR 376 972
Italy IT ITA 380 39
Jamaica JM JAM 388 1-876
Japan JP JPN 392 81
Jersey JE JEY 832 44
Jordan JO JOR 400 962
Kazakhstan KZ KAZ 398 7
Kenya KE KEN 404 254
Kiribati KI KIR 296 686
Korea‚ Democratic People's Republic of KP PRK 408 850
Korea‚ Republic of KR KOR 410 82
Kuwait KW KWT 414 965
Kyrgyzstan KG KGZ 417 996
Lao People's Democratic Republic LA LAO 418 856
Latvia LV LVA 428 371
Lebanon LB LBN 422 961
Lesotho LS LSO 426 266
Liberia LR LBR 430 231
Libya LY LBY 434 218
Liechtenstein LI LIE 438 423
Lithuania LT LTU 440 370
Luxembourg LU LUX 442 352
Macao MO MAC 446 853
Macedonia‚ the Former Yugoslav Republic of MK MKD 807 389
Madagascar MG MDG 450 261
Malawi MW MWI 454 265
Malaysia MY MYS 458 60
Maldives MV MDV 462 960
Mali ML MLI 466 223
Malta MT MLT 470 356
Marshall Islands MH MHL 584 692
Martinique MQ MTQ 474 596
Mauritania MR MRT 478 222
Mauritius MU MUS 480 230
Mayotte YT MYT 175 262
Mexico MX MEX 484 52
Micronesia‚ Federated States of FM FSM 583 691
Moldova‚ Republic of MD MDA 498 373
Monaco MC MCO 492 377
Mongolia MN MNG 496 976
Montenegro ME MNE 499 382
Montserrat MS MSR 500 1-664
Morocco MA MAR 504 212
Mozambique MZ MOZ 508 258
Myanmar MM MMR 104 95
Namibia NA NAM 516 264
Nauru NR NRU 520 674
Nepal NP NPL 524 977
Netherlands NL NLD 528 31
New Caledonia NC NCL 540 687
New Zealand NZ NZL 554 64
Nicaragua NI NIC 558 505
Niger NE NER 562 227
Nigeria NG NGA 566 234
Niue NU NIU 570 683
Norfolk Island NF NFK 574 672
Northern Mariana Islands MP MNP 580 1-670
Norway NO NOR 578 47
Oman OM OMN 512 968
Pakistan PK PAK 586 92
Palau PW PLW 585 680
Palestine‚ State of PS PSE 275 970
Panama PA PAN 591 507
Papua New Guinea PG PNG 598 675
Paraguay PY PRY 600 595
Peru PE PER 604 51
Philippines PH PHL 608 63
Pitcairn PN PCN 612 870
Poland PL POL 616 48
Portugal PT PRT 620 351
Puerto Rico PR PRI 630 1
Qatar QA QAT 634 974
Romania RO ROU 642 40
Russian Federation RU RUS 643 7
Rwanda RW RWA 646 250
Reunion RE REU 638 262
Saint Barthalemy BL BLM 652 590
Saint Helena SH SHN 654 290 n
Saint Kitts and Nevis KN KNA 659 1-869
Saint Lucia LC LCA 662 1-758
Saint Martin (French part) MF MAF 663 590
Saint Pierre and Miquelon PM SPM 666 508
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC VCT 670 1-784
Samoa WS WSM 882 685
San Marino SM SMR 674 378
Sao Tome and Principe ST STP 678 239
Saudi Arabia SA SAU 682 966
Senegal SN SEN 686 221
Serbia RS SRB 688 381 p
Seychelles SC SYC 690 248
Sierra Leone SL SLE 694 232
Singapore SG SGP 702 65
Sint Maarten (Dutch part) SX SXM 534 1-721
Slovakia SK SVK 703 421
Slovenia SI SVN 705 386
Solomon Islands SB SLB 90 677
Somalia SO SOM 706 252
South Africa ZA ZAF 710 27
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands GS SGS 239 500
South Sudan SS SSD 728 211
Spain ES ESP 724 34
Sri Lanka LK LKA 144 94
Sudan SD SDN 729 249
Suriname SR SUR 740 597
Svalbard and Jan Mayen SJ SJM 744 47
Swaziland SZ SWZ 748 268
Sweden SE SWE 752 46
Switzerland CH CHE 756 41
Syrian Arab Republic SY SYR 760 963
Taiwan‚ Province of China TW TWN 158 886
Tajikistan TJ TJK 762 992
United Republic of Tanzania TZ TZA 834 255
Thailand TH THA 764 66
Timor-Leste TL TLS 626 670
Togo TG TGO 768 228
Tokelau TK TKL 772 690
Tonga TO TON 776 676
Trinidad and Tobago TT TTO 780 1-868
Tunisia TN TUN 788 216
Turkey TR TUR 792 90
Turkmenistan TM TKM 795 993
Turks and Caicos Islands TC TCA 796 1-649
Tuvalu TV TUV 798 688
Uganda UG UGA 800 256
Ukraine UA UKR 804 380
United Arab Emirates AE ARE 784 971
United Kingdom (UK) GB GBR 826 44
United States US USA 840 1
United States Minor Outlying Islands UM UMI 581 Â
Uruguay UY URY 858 598
Uzbekistan UZ UZB 860 998
Vanuatu VU VUT 548 678
Venezuela VE VEN 862 58
Viet Nam VN VNM 704 84
British Virgin Islands VG VGB 92 1-284
US Virgin Islands VI VIR 850 1-340
Wallis and Futuna WF WLF 876 681
Western Sahara EH ESH 732 212
Yemen YE YEM 887 967
Zambia ZM ZMB 894 260
Zimbabwe ZW ZWE 716 263
Aland Islands AX ALA 248 358

Canada 2 Letter Province & Territory Abbreviations

PROVINCE/TERRITORY ABBREVIATION
Alberta AB
British Columbia BC
Manitoba MB
New Brunswick NB
Newfoundland and Labrador NL
Northwest Territories NT
Nova Scotia NS
Nunavut NU
Ontario ON
Prince Edward Island PE
Quebec QC
Saskatchewan SK
Yukon YT

United States 2 Letter State & Territory Abbreviations
with State Vessel Registration Prefixes & State Assigned MICs

DOMAINS: ABBREVIATIONS SVRP MIC
US Federal District:
Washington D.C. DC
US States:
Alabama AL AL ALZ
Alaska AK AK AKZ
Arizona AZ AZ AZZ
Arkansas AR AR ARZ
California CA CF CFZ
Colorado CO CL CLZ
Connecticut CT CT CTZ
Delaware DE DL DLZ
Florida FL FL FLZ
Georgia GA GA GAZ
Hawaii HI HA HAZ
Idaho ID ID IDZ
Illinois IL IL ILZ
Indiana IN IN INZ
Iowa IA IA IAZ
Kansas KS KA KAZ
Kentucky KY KY KYZ
Louisiana LA LA LAZ
Maine ME ME MEZ
Maryland MD MD MDZ
Massachusetts MA MS MSZ
Michigan MI MC MCZ
Minnesota MN MN MNZ
Mississippi MS MI MIZ
Missouri MO MO MOZ
Montana MT MT MTZ
Nebraska NE NB NBZ
Nevada NV NV NVZ
New Hampshire NH NH NHZ
New Jersey NJ NJ NJZ
New Mexico NM NM NMZ
New York NY NY NYZ
North Carolina NC NC NCZ
North Dakota ND ND NDZ
Ohio OH OH OHZ
Oklahoma OK OK OKZ
Oregon OR OR ORZ
Pennsylvania PA PA PAZ
Rhode Island RI RI RIZ
South Carolina SC SC SCZ
South Dakota SD SD SDZ
Tennessee TN TN TNZ
Texas TX TX TXZ
Utah UT UT UTZ
Vermont VT VT VTZ
Virginia VA VA VAZ
Washington WA WN WNZ
West Virginia WV WV WVZ
Wisconsin WI WS WSZ
Wyoming WY WY WYZ
US Territories:
American Samoa AS
Guam GU
Northern Mariana Islands MP
Puerto Rico PR
US Virgin Islands VI VI VIZ

Language 2 Letter Abbreviations
From www.sitepoint.com

Language Abbreviation
Abkhazian AB
Afar AA
Afrikaans AF
Albanian SQ
Amharic AM
Arabic AR
Armenian HY
Assamese AS
Aymara AY
Azerbaijani AZ
Bashkir BA
Basque EU
Bengali‚ Bangla BN
Bhutani DZ
Bihari BH
Bislama BI
Breton BR
Bulgarian BG
Burmese MY
Byelorussian BE
Cambodian KM
Catalan CA
Chinese ZH
Corsican CO
Croatian HR
Czech CS
Danish DA
Dutch NL
English‚ American EN
Esperanto EO
Estonian ET
Faeroese FO
Fiji FJ
Finnish FI
French FR
Frisian FY
Gaelic (Scots Gaelic) GD
Galician GL
Georgian KA
German DE
Greek EL
Greenlandic KL
Guarani GN
Gujarati GU
Hausa HA
Hebrew IW
Hindi HI
Hungarian HU
Icelandic IS
Indonesian IN
Interlingua IA
Interlingue IE
Inupiak IK
Irish GA
Italian IT
Japanese JA
Javanese JW
Kannada KN
Kashmiri KS
Kazakh KK
Kinyarwanda RW
Kirghiz KY
Kirundi RN
Korean KO
Kurdish KU
Laothian LO
Latin LA
Latvian‚ Lettish LV
Lingala LN
Lithuanian LT
Macedonian MK
Malagasy MG
Malay MS
Malayalam ML
Maltese MT
Maori MI
Marathi MR
Moldavian MO
Mongolian MN
Nauru NA
Nepali NE
Norwegian NO
Occitan OC
Oriya OR
Oromo‚ Afan OM
Pashto‚ Pushto PS
Persian FA
Polish PL
Portuguese PT
Punjabi PA
Quechua QU
Rhaeto-Romance RM
Romanian RO
Russian RU
Samoan SM
Sangro SG
Sanskrit SA
Serbian SR
Serbo-Croatian SH
Sesotho ST
Setswana TN
Shona SN
Sindhi SD
Singhalese SI
Siswati SS
Slovak SK
Slovenian SL
Somali SO
Spanish ES
Sudanese SU
Swahili SW
Swedish SV
Tagalog TL
Tajik TG
Tamil TA
Tatar TT
Tegulu TE
Thai TH
Tibetan BO
Tigrinya TI
Tonga TO
Tsonga TS
Turkish TR
Turkmen TK
Twi TW
Ukrainian UK
Urdu UR
Uzbek UZ
Vietnamese VI
Volapuk VO
Welsh CY
Wolof WO
Xhosa XH
Yiddish JI
Yoruba YO
Zulu ZU

Dates & Times Formats & Abbreviations

What do the “XXXXXX-XXXX”, “XXXXXX”, “XXXX” number groupings mean on this site?
They mean the Date and Time by “YYMMDD-HHmm”. “YY” = Year, “MM” = Month, “DD” = Day, “HH” = Hour, “mm” = Minute. So “150704-1837” would mean July 4, 2015 at 6:37 PM. The “1837” on a 24 hour clock is 6:37 PM on a 12 hour clock (1837 – 1200 = 6:37 PM). Here are examples of time number groupings: “0637” means 6:37 AM. “1146” means 11:46 AM. “0014” means 12:14 AM (as it is after midnight). “1258” means 12:58 PM (as it is after noon). Whenever the date number grouping “YYMMDD” or the time number grouping “HHmm” are used by themselves, they are identified unless they are obvious.

AM, A.M., am, a.m. stands for Ante Meridiem (Latin = “before midday”) means “before noon”.
PM, P.M., pm, p.m. stands for Post Meridiem (Latin = “after midday”) means “after noon”.
NOTE: The terms 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. cause confusion and should not be used as neither the “12 am” nor the “12 pm” designation is technically correct. It advisable to use 12 noon and 12 midnight where clarity is required. To avoid ambiguity, airlines, railroads, and insurance companies use 12:01am for an event beginning the day, 11:59pm for ending it.


Notation of Time

UTC
If the time is in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), add a “Z” directly after the time without a space. “Z” is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset. “09:30 UTC” is therefore represented as “09:30Z” or “0930Z”. “14:45:15 UTC” would be “14:45:15Z” or “144515Z”.

UTC time is also known as “Zulu” time, since “Zulu” is the ICAO spelling alphabet code word for “Z”.

UTC time is Also known as “Greenwich Mean Time” (GMT) as it passes through Greenwich, London, United Kingdom.

Time Zones and Time Offsets
A time zone is a geographical region where almost everyone observes the same standard time.

A time offset is an amount of time subtracted from or added to UTC to get the current civil time – whether it’s standard time or daylight saving time. In any particular time zone, residents either observe standard time all year round (as in Russia or South Africa), or observe standard time in winter and daylight time in summer.

Offsets from UTC are written in the format ±[hh]:[mm], ±[hh][mm], or ±[hh] (either hour(s) ahead or behind UTC). So if the time being described is one hour ahead of UTC (such as the time in Berlin during the winter), the zone designator would be “+01:00”, “+0100”, or simply “+01”. This is appended to the time in the same way that ‘Z’ was above. The offset from UTC changes with daylight saving time, e.g. a time offset in Chicago, which is in the North American Central Time Zone, would be “−06:00” for the winter (Central Standard Time) and “−05:00” for the summer.
Standard_World_Time_ZonesClick map to enlarge

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Time Zone Abbreviations
Time zones are often represented by abbreviations such as “EST, WST, CST” but these are not part of the international time and date standard ISO 8601 and their use as sole designator for a time zone is not recommended. Such designations can be ambiguous. For example, “ECT”, could be interpreted as “Eastern Caribbean Time” (UTC−4h), “Ecuador Time” (UTC−5h) or “European Central Time” (UTC+1h).

ABBR. NAME UTC Offset
ACDT Australian Central Daylight Savings Time UTC+10:30
ACST Australian Central Standard Time UTC+09:30
ACT Acre Time UTC−05
ACT ASEAN Common Time UTC+08
ADT Atlantic Daylight Time UTC−03
AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time UTC+11
AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time UTC+10
AFT Afghanistan Time UTC+04:30
AKDT Alaska Daylight Time UTC−08
AKST Alaska Standard Time UTC−09
AMST Amazon Summer Time (Brazil) UTC−03
AMST Armenia Summer Time UTC+05
AMT Amazon Time (Brazil) UTC−04
AMT Armenia Time UTC+04
ART Argentina Time UTC−03
AST Arabia Standard Time UTC+03
AST Atlantic Standard Time UTC−04
AWDT Australian Western Daylight Time UTC+09
AWST Australian Western Standard Time UTC+08
AZOST Azores Standard Time UTC−01
AZT Azerbaijan Time UTC+04
BDT Brunei Time UTC+08
BDT Bangladesh Daylight Time (Bangladesh Daylight saving time keeps UTC+06 offset) UTC+06
BIOT British Indian Ocean Time UTC+06
BIT Baker Island Time UTC−12
BOT Bolivia Time UTC−04
BRST Brasilia Summer Time UTC−02
BRT Brasilia Time UTC−03
BST Bangladesh Standard Time UTC+06
BST Bougainville Standard Time UTC+11
BST British Summer Time (British Standard Time from Feb 1968 to Oct 1971) UTC+01
BTT Bhutan Time UTC+06
CAT Central Africa Time UTC+02
CCT Cocos Islands Time UTC+06:30
CDT Central Daylight Time (North America) UTC−05
CDT Cuba Daylight Time UTC−04
CEDT Central European Daylight Time UTC+02
CEST Central European Summer Time (Cf. HAEC) UTC+02
CET Central European Time UTC+01
CHADT Chatham Daylight Time UTC+13:45
CHAST Chatham Standard Time UTC+12:45
CHOT Choibalsan UTC+08
ChST Chamorro Standard Time UTC+10
CHUT Chuuk Time UTC+10
CIST Clipperton Island Standard Time UTC−08
CIT Central Indonesia Time UTC+08
CKT Cook Island Time UTC−10
CLST Chile Summer Time UTC−03
CLT Chile Standard Time UTC−04
COST Colombia Summer Time UTC−04
COT Colombia Time UTC−05
CST Central Standard Time (North America) UTC−06
CST China Standard Time UTC+08
CST Central Standard Time (Australia) UTC+09:30
CST Central Summer Time (Australia) UTC+10:30
CST Cuba Standard Time UTC−05
CT China time UTC+08
CVT Cape Verde Time UTC−01
CWST Central Western Standard Time (Australia) unofficial UTC+08:45
CXT Christmas Island Time UTC+07
DAVT Davis Time UTC+07
DDUT Dumont d'Urville Time UTC+10
DFT AIX specific equivalent of Central European Time UTC+01
EASST Easter Island Standard Summer Time UTC−05
EAST Easter Island Standard Time UTC−06
EAT East Africa Time UTC+03
ECT Eastern Caribbean Time (does not recognise DST) UTC−04
ECT Ecuador Time UTC−05
EDT Eastern Daylight Time (North America) UTC−04
EEDT Eastern European Daylight Time UTC+03
EEST Eastern European Summer Time UTC+03
EET Eastern European Time UTC+02
EGST Eastern Greenland Summer Time UTC+00
EGT Eastern Greenland Time UTC−01
EIT Eastern Indonesian Time UTC+09
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MET Middle European Time Same zone as CET UTC+01
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USZ1 Kaliningrad Time UTC+02
UTC Coordinated Universal Time UTC
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WAST West Africa Summer Time UTC+02
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WEDT Western European Daylight Time UTC+01
WEST Western European Summer Time UTC+01
WET Western European Time UTC
WIT Western Indonesian Time UTC+07
WST Western Standard Time UTC+08
YAKT Yakutsk Time UTC+09
YEKT Yekaterinburg Time UTC+05
Z Zulu Time (Coordinated Universal Time) UTC

International Date Line (IDL)

The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of navigation on the surface of the Earth that runs from the north pole to the south pole and demarcates the change of one calendar day to the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° line of longitude but deviating to pass around some territories and island groups.

International_Date_Line

From Wikipedia.


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