Time in Antarctica
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Antarctica sits on every line of longitude, due to the South Pole being situated near the middle of the continent. Theoretically Antarctica would be located in all time zones, however areas south of the Antarctic Circle experience extreme day-night cycles near the times of the June and December solstices, making it difficult to determine which time zone would be appropriate. For practical purposes time zones are usually based on territorial claims, however many stations use the time of the country they are owned by or the time zone of their supply base (e.g. McMurdo Station and Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station use New Zealand time due to their main supply base being Christchurch, New Zealand).[1] Many areas have no time zone since nothing is decided and there are not even any temporary settlements that have any clocks. They are simply labeled with UTC time.[2]
TZ database
The file zone.tab of the tz database contains the following zones, columns marked with * contain data from the file zone.tab.
| Country code* | Coordinates* | Zone name* | Comment* | UTC offset standard time |
DST | Area covered | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AQ | -7446-13652 | Antarctica/Russkaya[3] | Russkaya Station, Rupert Coast | -06:00 | ? | Marie Byrd Land | |
| AQ | −6448−06406 | Antarctica/Palmer | Palmer | −03:00 | yes | Palmer Land | |
| AQ | −6734−06808 | Antarctica/Rothera | Rothera | −03:00 | no | Graham Land | |
| AQ | −7824+10654 | Antarctica/Vostok | Vostok | +05:00 | no | Inland Antarctica, Queen Maud Land | |
| AQ | −690022+0393524 | Antarctica/Syowa | Syowa | +03:00 | no | Queen Maud Land, Enderby Land | |
| AQ | −6736+06253 | Antarctica/Mawson | Mawson | +05:00 | no | Mac. Robertson Land | |
| AQ | −6835+07758 | Antarctica/Davis | Davis | +07:00 | no | Wilkes Land | |
| AQ | −6617+11031 | Antarctica/Casey | Casey | +08:00 | no | Wilkes Land | |
| AQ | −6640+14001 | Antarctica/DumontDUrville | Dumont-d'Urville | +10:00 | no | Adélie Land, Victoria Land | |
| AQ | −7750+16636 | Antarctica/McMurdo | New Zealand time - McMurdo, South Pole | +12:00 | yes | Ross Dependency | |
| AQ | Antarctica/South_Pole | +12:00 | yes | South Pole |
Daylight saving time
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For the most part, daylight saving time (DST) is not observed in Antarctica due to the fact that 95 percent of the continent is located south of the Antarctic Circle and the midnight sun phenomenon renders the use of DST unnecessary. However a few regions such as the Ross Dependency and Palmer Land observe the time of their claimant countries including their use of DST.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Local Time → Antarctica @ Time Genie". Timegenie.com. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ^ "Current local time in Antarctica – South Pole". Timeanddate.com. 2013-04-07. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ^ "French Polar Team - R1 Russkaya Station / Antarctica". French-polar-team.fr. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
