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Active Worlds uses its own time zone to help express the time of events and meetings in a virtual environment where attendees can physically be anywhere in the world. The AlphaWorld Virtual Reality Time (VRT) is chosen to be two hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at the Greenwich meridian.
For the current VRT time, put on VRT Clock from AW browser's Show menu. See also my Java script UTC clock example.
Here are the time zones of the world, based on what the zone's difference from UTC is (note that there is no Daylight Saving(s) Time (DST) for UTC):
Some of the information can be inaccurate
| UTC Offset | Zone Abbreviation | Zone Description | Some Countries and Areas that the Zone Crosses |
| -12 | Eniwetok, Kwajalein | ||
| -11 | American Samoa, Phoenix Islands (Kiribati), Midway Islands, Western Samoa | ||
| -10:30 | Cook Islands (New Zealand) | ||
| -10 | Aleutian Islands (USA), Hawaii (USA), French Polynesia | ||
| -9:30 | Iles Marquises | ||
| -9 | AKST/YST | Alaska | Alaska (USA), Pitcairn Island |
| -8 | AKDT/YDT | Alaska daylight saving | |
| -8 | PST | US Pacific | California, Idaho North, Oregon, Washington, Canada Pacific, Mexico West |
| -7 | PDT | US Pacific daylight saving | |
| -7 | MST | US Mountain | Arizona, Colorado, Idaho South, Montana, Texas West, Utah, Canada Mountain |
| -6 | MDT | US Mountain daylight saving | |
| -6 | CST | US Central | Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky (part), Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee West, Texas East, Wisconsin, Canada Central, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Galapagos Islands |
| -5 | CDT | US Central daylight saving | |
| -5 | EST | US Eastern | Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky (part), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee East, Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia, Canada Eastern, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos Islands, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez Islands |
| -4 | EDT | US Eastern daylight saving | |
| -4 | AST | Atlantic | Canada Atlantic, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands, Bolivia, Brazil East, Chile, Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, Paraguay, Venezuela |
| -3:30 | NST | Newfoundland | Canada Newfoundland |
| -3 | ADT | Atlantic daylight saving | |
| -3 | Argentina, Brazil East, French Guiana, Greenland main, Guyana, Surinam, Uruguay | ||
| -2:30 | NDT | Newfoundland daylight saving | |
| -2 | Mid-Atlantic | East Brazil | |
| -2 | VRT | Virtual Reality Time | AlphaWorld |
| -1 | Azores, Cape Verde (Portugal) | ||
| 0 | UTC/UT/GMT/Z | Coordinated Universal Time / Greenwich Mean Time / Zulu Time |
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| 0 | WET | Western Europe | Iceland, Ireland, UK, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, San Tome And Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo |
| +1 | WETDST/BST | Western Europe daylight saving | |
| +1 | MET/CET/MEZ | Middle/Central Europe | Andorra, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kamerun, Libya, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Tunis |
| +2 | METDST/MESZ | Middle Europe daylight saving | |
| +2 | EET | Eastern Europe | Belorussia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Botswana, Burundi, Congo PR, Egypt, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| +3 | EETDST | Eastern Europe daylight saving | |
| +3 | Russia West, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagaskar, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda | ||
| +3:30 | Iran | ||
| +4 | Volgograd (Russia), Armenia, Oman, United Arab Emirates | ||
| +4:30 | Afghanistan | ||
| +5 | Jekaterinburg (Russia), Kyrgystan, Pakistan, Tajik, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan | ||
| +5:30 | India, Sri Lanka | ||
| +6 | Bangladesh | ||
| +6:30 | Burma, Cocos Islands | ||
| +7 | Cambodia, Java (Indonesia), Sumatra (Indonesia), Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Christmas Island | ||
| +8 | WST | Western Australia | West Australia, Brunei, China, Bali (Indonesia), Borneo (Indonesia), Timor (Indonesia), Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan |
| +9 | JST | Japanese | Jakutsk (Russia), Irian Jaya (Indonesia), Moluccas (Indonesia), Japan, Korea |
| +9:30 | Central Australia | ||
| +10 | EST | Eastern Australia and Territory | Eastern Australia, Guam, Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea |
| +10:30 | Central Australia daylight saving | ||
| +10:30 | Lord Howe Island (Australia) | ||
| +11 | EDT | Eastern Australia daylight saving | |
| +11 | New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu | ||
| +11:30 | Norfolk Island (Australia) | ||
| +12 | NZST | New Zealand | New Zealand, Kamchatka (Russia), Fiji, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Nauru, Tonga, Tuvalu |
| +12:45 | Chatham Island (New Zealand) | ||
| +13 | NZDT | New Zealand daylight saving | |
| +13 | Kermadec Islands |
2005-04-07