North American time zones

E1528

temporal standard time zone system

North American time zones are the standardized regional time divisions used across countries in North America, including zones such as Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Time.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	temporal standard → time zone system →
appliesToRegion	North America →
governedBy	national time legislation →
hasCommonOffsetRange	UTC−10 to UTC−2 →
hasVariation	regions that do not observe daylight saving time →
historicallyInfluencedBy	railway time adoption in North America →
includesTimeZone	Alaska Time Zone → Atlantic Time Zone → Caribbean → surface form: "Caribbean Time Zones" Central Time Zone → Chamorro Standard Time → surface form: "Chamorro Time Zone" Eastern Time Zone → Greenland Time Zones → Alaska Time Zone → surface form: "Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone" Mexico Time Zones → Mountain Time Zone → Newfoundland Time Zone → Pacific Time Zone → Samoa Time Zone →
observedInCountry	Bahamas → Belize → Bermuda (United Kingdom) → surface form: "Bermuda" Canada → Costa Rica → Cuba → Dominican Republic → El Salvador → Greenland → Guatemala → Haiti → Honduras → Jamaica → Mexico → Nicaragua → Panama → Puerto Rico → Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) → surface form: "Saint Pierre and Miquelon" United States of America → surface form: "United States"
oftenIncludesPractice	daylight saving time →
partlyDefinedBy	Greenwich Mean Time → surface form: "International Meridian Conference of 1884"
relatedTo	IANA time zone database → time zone abbreviations in North America →
standardizedBy	Coordinated Universal Time →
usedFor	broadcast scheduling → business coordination → civil timekeeping → transportation scheduling →
usesOffsetFrom	UTC →

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

CDT → partOf → North American time zones →

Eastern Time Zone → partOf → North American time zones →

PST → partOf → North American time zones →

subject surface form: "Pacific Standard Time"

CST → partOfTimeZoneSystem → North American time zones →