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Encyclopedia > Newfoundland Standard Time Zone
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NST is UTC-3:30

The Newfoundland Standard Time Zone (NST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting 3½ hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC-3:30. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (515x697, 107 KB)cut from CIA map File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (515x697, 107 KB)cut from CIA map File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ...


NST is used only in Canada, and there only by the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Officially, the island of Newfoundland, plus its offshore islands, is the only part of the province that uses NST; Labrador, the mainland portion, officially uses Atlantic Standard Time. However, the southeastern tip of Labrador unofficially uses NST because it is more closely tied economically to the island than it is to the remainder of Labrador. Motto: Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei (Seek ye first the kingdom of God) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital St. ... Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Irish: Talamh an Éisc; Latin: Terra Nova) Newfoundland (originally, Terra Nova) was very likely named by the english John Cabot in 1497, which would make it the oldest European name in North America. ... This article is about the region in Canada. ... The Atlantic Standard Time Zone (AST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ...


NST is known as Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT) during daylight saving time, and has one hour added to make it 2½ hours behind UTC (UTC-2:30). Daylight saving time (also called DST, or summer time) is the portion of the year in which a regions local time is advanced by (usually) one hour from its official standard time. ...


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Jump to: navigation, search Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... The Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone includes the state of Hawaii, and the Aleutian Islands west of 169º 30 W. It is the time zone located just west of the Alaska Standard Time Zone. ... The Alaska Standard Time Zone (AKST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting nine hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... The Pacific Standard Time Zone (PST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) resulting in UTC-8. ... MST is UTC-7 The Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC-7. ... CST is UTC-6 The Central Standard Time Zone (CST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting six hours from UTC (UTC-6). ... The Eastern Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting five hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... The Atlantic Standard Time Zone (AST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ...

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