Worldwide time zone codes

Use the information in the following table to help you set the system's time zone.

Time zone codes

The following table lists all of the worldwide time zone codes and the associated time zone descriptions. Additional information about the time zone is located in the Comments column.
Code Time zone Comments
AD Europe/Andorra  
AE Asia/Dubai  
AF Asia/Kabul  
AG America/Antigua  
AI America/Anguilla  
AL Europe/Tirane  
AM Asia/Yerevan  
AN America/Curacao  
AO Africa/Luanda  
AQ Antarctica/McMurdo McMurdo Station, Ross Island
AQ Antarctica/South_Pole Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole
AQ Antarctica/Rothera Rothera Station, Adelaide Island
AQ Antarctica/Palmer Palmer Station, Anvers Island
AQ Antarctica/Mawson Mawson Station, Holme Bay
AQ Antarctica/Davis Davis Station, Vestfold Hills
AQ Antarctica/Casey Casey Station, Bailey Peninsula
AQ Antarctica/Vostok Vostok Station, S Magnetic Pole
AQ Antarctica/DumontDUrville Dumont-d'Urville Station, Terre Adelie
AQ Antarctica/Syowa Syowa Station, E Ongul I
AR America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires Buenos Aires (BA, CF)
AR America/Argentina/Cordoba most locations (CB, CC, CN, ER, FM, LP, MN, NQ, RN, SA, SE, SF, SL)
AR America/Argentina/Jujuy Jujuy (JY)
AR America/Argentina/Tucuman Tucuman (TM)
AR America/Argentina/Catamarca Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH)
AR America/Argentina/La_Rioja La Rioja (LR)
AR America/Argentina/San_Juan San Juan (SJ)
AR America/Argentina/Mendoza Mendoza (MZ)
AR America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos Santa Cruz (SC)
AR America/Argentina/Ushuaia Tierra del Fuego (TF)
AS Pacific/Pago_Pago  
AT Europe/Vienna  
AU Australia/Lord_Howe Lord Howe Island
AU Australia/Hobart Tasmania - most locations
AU Australia/Currie Tasmania - King Island
AU Australia/Melbourne Victoria
AU Australia/Sydney New South Wales - most locations
AU Australia/Broken_Hill New South Wales - Yancowinna
AU Australia/Brisbane Queensland - most locations
AU Australia/Lindeman Queensland - Holiday Islands
AU Australia/Adelaide South Australia
AU Australia/Darwin Northern Territory
AU Australia/Perth Western Australia - most locations
AU Australia/Eucla Western Australia - Eucla area
AW America/Aruba  
AX Europe/Mariehamn  
AZ Asia/Baku  
BA Europe/Sarajevo  
BB America/Barbados  
BD Asia/Dhaka  
BE Europe/Brussels  
BF Africa/Ouagadougou  
BG Europe/Sofia  
BH Asia/Bahrain  
BI Africa/Bujumbura  
BJ Africa/Porto-Novo  
BL America/St_Barthelemy  
BM Atlantic/Bermuda  
BN Asia/Brunei  
BO America/La_Paz  
BR America/Noronha Atlantic islands
BR America/Belem Amapa, E Para
BR America/Fortaleza NE Brazil (MA, PI, CE, RN, PB)
BR America/Recife Pernambuco
BR America/Araguaina Tocantins
BR America/Maceio Alagoas, Sergipe
BR America/Bahia Bahia
BR America/Sao_Paulo S & SE Brazil (GO, DF, MG, ES, RJ, SP, PR, SC, RS)
BR America/Campo_Grande Mato Grosso do Sul
BR America/Cuiaba Mato Grosso
BR America/Porto_Velho W Para, Rondonia
BR America/Boa_Vista Roraima
BR America/Manaus E Amazonas
BR America/Eirunepe W Amazonas
BR America/Rio_Branco Acre
BS America/Nassau  
BT Asia/Thimphu  
BW Africa/Gaborone  
BY Europe/Minsk  
BZ America/Belize  
CA America/St_Johns Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador
CA America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), PEI
CA America/Glace_Bay Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia - places that did not observe DST 1966-1971
CA America/Moncton Atlantic Time - New Brunswick
CA America/Goose_Bay Atlantic Time - Labrador - most locations
CA America/Blanc-Sablon Atlantic Standard Time - Quebec - Lower North Shore
CA America/Montreal Eastern Time - Quebec - most locations
CA America/Toronto Eastern Time - Ontario - most locations
CA America/Nipigon Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec - places that did not observe DST 1967-1973
CA America/Thunder_Bay Eastern Time - Thunder Bay, Ontario
CA America/Iqaluit Eastern Time - east Nunavut - most locations
CA America/Pangnirtung Eastern Time - Pangnirtung, Nunavut
CA America/Resolute Eastern Time - Resolute, Nunavut
CA America/Atikokan Eastern Standard Time - Atikokan, Ontario and Southampton I, Nunavut
CA America/Rankin_Inlet Central Time - central Nunavut
CA America/Winnipeg Central Time - Manitoba & west Ontario
CA America/Rainy_River Central Time - Rainy River & Fort Frances, Ontario
CA America/Regina Central Standard Time - Saskatchewan - most locations
CA America/Swift_Current Central Standard Time - Saskatchewan - midwest
CA America/Edmonton Mountain Time - Alberta, east British Columbia & west Saskatchewan
CA America/Cambridge_Bay Mountain Time - west Nunavut
CA America/Yellowknife Mountain Time - central Northwest Territories
CA America/Inuvik Mountain Time - west Northwest Territories
CA America/Dawson_Creek Mountain Standard Time - Dawson Creek & Fort Saint John, British Columbia
CA America/Vancouver Pacific Time - west British Columbia
CA America/Whitehorse Pacific Time - south Yukon
CA America/Dawson Pacific Time - north Yukon
CC Indian/Cocos  
CD Africa/Kinshasa west Dem. Rep. of Congo
CD Africa/Lubumbashi east Dem. Rep. of Congo
CF Africa/Bangui  
CG Africa/Brazzaville  
CH Europe/Zurich  
CI Africa/Abidjan  
CK Pacific/Rarotonga  
CL America/Santiago most locations
CL Pacific/Easter Easter Island & Sala y Gomez
CM Africa/Douala  
CN Asia/Shanghai east China - Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, etc.
CN Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang (except Mohe), Jilin
CN Asia/Chongqing central China - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, etc.
CN Asia/Urumqi most of Tibet & Xinjiang
CN Asia/Kashgar west Tibet & Xinjiang
CO America/Bogota  
CR America/Costa_Rica  
CU America/Havana  
CV Atlantic/Cape_Verde  
CX Indian/Christmas  
CY Asia/Nicosia  
CZ Europe/Prague  
DE Europe/Berlin  
DJ Africa/Djibouti  
DK Europe/Copenhagen  
DM America/Dominica  
DO America/Santo_Domingo  
DZ Africa/Algiers  
EC America/Guayaquil mainland
EC Pacific/Galapagos Galapagos Islands
EE Europe/Tallinn  
EG Africa/Cairo  
EH Africa/El_Aaiun  
ER Africa/Asmara  
ES Europe/Madrid mainland
ES Africa/Ceuta Ceuta & Melilla
ES Atlantic/Canary Canary Islands
ET Africa/Addis_Ababa  
FI Europe/Helsinki  
FJ Pacific/Fiji  
FK Atlantic/Stanley  
FM Pacific/Truk Truk (Chuuk) and Yap
FM Pacific/Ponape Ponape (Pohnpei)
FM Pacific/Kosrae Kosrae
FO Atlantic/Faroe  
FR Europe/Paris  
GA Africa/Libreville  
GB Europe/London  
GD America/Grenada  
GE Asia/Tbilisi  
GF America/Cayenne  
GG Europe/Guernsey  
GH Africa/Accra  
GI Europe/Gibraltar  
GL America/Godthab most locations
GL America/Danmarkshavn east coast, north of Scoresbysund
GL America/Scoresbysund Scoresbysund / Ittoqqortoormiit
GL America/Thule Thule / Pituffik
GM Africa/Banjul  
GN Africa/Conakry  
GP America/Guadeloupe  
GQ Africa/Malabo  
GR Europe/Athens  
GS Atlantic/South_Georgia  
GT America/Guatemala  
GU Pacific/Guam  
GW Africa/Bissau  
GY America/Guyana  
HK Asia/Hong_Kong  
HN America/Tegucigalpa  
HR Europe/Zagreb  
HT America/Port-au-Prince  
HU Europe/Budapest  
ID Asia/Jakarta Java & Sumatra
ID Asia/Pontianak west & central Borneo
ID Asia/Makassar east & south Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Nusa Tengarra, west Timor
ID Asia/Jayapura Irian Jaya & the Moluccas
IE Europe/Dublin  
IL Asia/Jerusalem  
IM Europe/Isle_of_Man  
IN Asia/Calcutta  
IO Indian/Chagos  
IQ Asia/Baghdad  
IR Asia/Tehran  
IS Atlantic/Reykjavik  
IT Europe/Rome  
JE Europe/Jersey  
JM America/Jamaica  
JO Asia/Amman  
JP Asia/Tokyo  
KE Africa/Nairobi  
KG Asia/Bishkek  
KH Asia/Phnom_Penh  
KI Pacific/Tarawa Gilbert Islands
KI Pacific/Enderbury Phoenix Islands
KI Pacific/Kiritimati Line Islands
KM Indian/Comoro  
KN America/St_Kitts  
KP Asia/Pyongyang  
KR Asia/Seoul  
KW Asia/Kuwait  
KY America/Cayman  
KZ Asia/Almaty most locations
KZ Asia/Qyzylorda Qyzylorda (Kyzylorda, Kzyl-Orda)
KZ Asia/Aqtobe Aqtobe (Aktobe)
KZ Asia/Aqtau Atyrau (Atirau, Gur'yev), Mangghystau (Mankistau)
KZ Asia/Oral West Kazakhstan
LA Asia/Vientiane  
LB Asia/Beirut  
LC America/St_Lucia  
LI Europe/Vaduz  
LK Asia/Colombo  
LR Africa/Monrovia  
LS Africa/Maseru  
LT Europe/Vilnius  
LU Europe/Luxembourg  
LV Europe/Riga  
LY Africa/Tripoli  
MA Africa/Casablanca  
MC Europe/Monaco  
MD Europe/Chisinau  
ME Europe/Podgorica  
MF America/Marigot  
MG Indian/Antananarivo  
MH Pacific/Majuro most locations
MH Pacific/Kwajalein Kwajalein
MK Europe/Skopje  
ML Africa/Bamako  
MM Asia/Rangoon  
MN Asia/Ulaanbaatar most locations
MN Asia/Hovd Bayan-Olgiy, Govi-Altai, Hovd, Uvs, Zavkhan
MN Asia/Choibalsan Dornod, Sukhbaatar
MO Asia/Macau  
MP Pacific/Saipan  
MQ America/Martinique  
MR Africa/Nouakchott  
MS America/Montserrat  
MT Europe/Malta  
MU Indian/Mauritius  
MV Indian/Maldives  
MW Africa/Blantyre  
MX America/Mexico_City Central Time - most locations
MX America/Cancun Central Time - Quintana Roo
MX America/Merida Central Time - Campeche, Yucatan
MX America/Monterrey Central Time - Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas
MX America/Mazatlan Mountain Time - S Baja, Nayarit, Sinaloa
MX America/Chihuahua Mountain Time - Chihuahua
MX America/Hermosillo Mountain Standard Time - Sonora
MX America/Tijuana Pacific Time
MY Asia/Kuala_Lumpur peninsular Malaysia
MY Asia/Kuching Sabah & Sarawak
MZ Africa/Maputo  
NA Africa/Windhoek  
NC Pacific/Noumea  
NE Africa/Niamey  
NF Pacific/Norfolk  
NG Africa/Lagos  
NI America/Managua  
NL Europe/Amsterdam  
NO Europe/Oslo  
NP Asia/Katmandu  
NR Pacific/Nauru  
NU Pacific/Niue  
NZ Pacific/Auckland most locations
NZ Pacific/Chatham Chatham Islands
OM Asia/Muscat  
PA America/Panama  
PE America/Lima  
PF Pacific/Tahiti Society Islands
PF Pacific/Marquesas Marquesas Islands
PF Pacific/Gambier Gambier Islands
PG Pacific/Port_Moresby  
PH Asia/Manila  
PK Asia/Karachi  
PL Europe/Warsaw  
PM America/Miquelon  
PN Pacific/Pitcairn  
PR America/Puerto_Rico  
PS Asia/Gaza  
PT Europe/Lisbon mainland
PT Atlantic/Madeira Madeira Islands
PT Atlantic/Azores Azores
PW Pacific/Palau  
PY America/Asuncion  
QA Asia/Qatar  
RE Indian/Reunion  
RO Europe/Bucharest  
RS Europe/Belgrade  
RU Europe/Kaliningrad Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad
RU Europe/Moscow Moscow+00 - west Russia
RU Europe/Volgograd Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea
RU Europe/Samara Moscow+01 - Samara, Udmurtia
RU Asia/Yekaterinburg Moscow+02 - Urals
RU Asia/Omsk Moscow+03 - west Siberia
RU Asia/Novosibirsk Moscow+03 - Novosibirsk
RU Asia/Krasnoyarsk Moscow+04 - Yenisei River
RU Asia/Irkutsk Moscow+05 - Lake Baikal
RU Asia/Yakutsk Moscow+06 - Lena River
RU Asia/Vladivostok Moscow+07 - Amur River
RU Asia/Sakhalin Moscow+07 - Sakhalin Island
RU Asia/Magadan Moscow+08 - Magadan
RU Asia/Kamchatka Moscow+09 - Kamchatka
RU Asia/Anadyr Moscow+10 - Bering Sea
RW Africa/Kigali  
SA Asia/Riyadh  
SB Pacific/Guadalcanal  
SC Indian/Mahe  
SD Africa/Khartoum  
SE Europe/Stockholm  
SG Asia/Singapore  
SH Atlantic/St_Helena  
SI Europe/Ljubljana  
SJ Arctic/Longyearbyen  
SK Europe/Bratislava  
SL Africa/Freetown  
SM Europe/San_Marino  
SN Africa/Dakar  
SO Africa/Mogadishu  
SR America/Paramaribo  
ST Africa/Sao_Tome  
SV America/El_Salvador  
SY Asia/Damascus  
SZ Africa/Mbabane  
TC America/Grand_Turk  
TD Africa/Ndjamena  
TF Indian/Kerguelen  
TG Africa/Lome  
TH Asia/Bangkok  
TJ Asia/Dushanbe  
TK Pacific/Fakaofo  
TL Asia/Dili  
TM Asia/Ashgabat  
TN Africa/Tunis  
TO Pacific/Tongatapu  
TR Europe/Istanbul  
TT America/Port_of_Spain  
TV Pacific/Funafuti  
TW Asia/Taipei  
TZ Africa/Dar_es_Salaam  
UA Europe/Kiev most locations
UA Europe/Uzhgorod Ruthenia
UA Europe/Zaporozhye Zaporozh'ye, E Lugansk / Zaporizhia, E Luhansk
UA Europe/Simferopol central Crimea
UG Africa/Kampala  
UM Pacific/Johnston Johnston Atoll
UM Pacific/Midway Midway Islands
UM Pacific/Wake Wake Island
US America/New_York Eastern Time
US America/Detroit Eastern Time - Michigan - most locations
US America/Kentucky/Louisville Eastern Time - Kentucky - Louisville area
US America/Kentucky/Monticello Eastern Time - Kentucky - Wayne County
US America/Indiana/Indianapolis Eastern Time - Indiana - most locations
US America/Indiana/Vincennes Eastern Time - Indiana - Daviess, Dubois, Knox & Martin Counties
US America/Indiana/Knox Eastern Time - Indiana - Starke County
US America/Indiana/Winamac Eastern Time - Indiana - Pulaski County
US America/Indiana/Marengo Eastern Time - Indiana - Crawford County
US America/Indiana/Vevay Eastern Time - Indiana - Switzerland County
US America/Chicago Central Time
US America/Indiana/Tell_City Central Time - Indiana - Perry County
US America/Indiana/Petersburg Central Time - Indiana - Pike County
US America/Menominee Central Time - Michigan - Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron & Menominee Counties
US America/North_Dakota/Center Central Time - North Dakota - Oliver County
US America/North_Dakota/New_Salem Central Time - North Dakota - Morton County (except Mandan area)
US America/Denver Mountain Time
US America/Boise Mountain Time - south Idaho & east Oregon
US America/Shiprock Mountain Time - Navajo
US America/Phoenix Mountain Standard Time - Arizona
US America/Los_Angeles Pacific Time
US America/Anchorage Alaska Time
US America/Juneau Alaska Time - Alaska panhandle
US America/Yakutat Alaska Time - Alaska panhandle neck
US America/Nome Alaska Time - west Alaska
US America/Adak Aleutian Islands
US Pacific/Honolulu Hawaii
UY America/Montevideo  
UZ Asia/Samarkand west Uzbekistan
UZ Asia/Tashkent east Uzbekistan
VA Europe/Vatican  
VC America/St_Vincent  
VE America/Caracas  
VG America/Tortola  
VI America/St_Thomas  
VN Asia/Saigon  
VU Pacific/Efate  
WF Pacific/Wallis  
WS Pacific/Apia  
YE Asia/Aden  
YT Indian/Mayotte  
ZA Africa/Johannesburg  
ZM Africa/Lusaka  
ZW Africa/Harare  
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