Time Zone Formats

Work with different formats for time zone specifications: numeric values, strings, or entities.

Get your system time zone offset as a number of hours relative to Greenwich Mean Time.

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$TimeZone

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This is your system "TimeZone" entity.

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$TimeZoneEntity

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Get the current date and time for a specific named time zone.

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DateObject[TimeZone -> "Asia/Tokyo"]

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Get a list of example "TimeZone" entities.

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EntityValue["TimeZone", "SampleEntities"]

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Visualize the geographic region that observes Mountain Time in the United States.

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GeoGraphics[{Red, EdgeForm[Black], Polygon[Entity["TimeZone", "America/Denver"]]}, GeoRange -> Quantity[650, "Miles"]]

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