UTC+13:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +13:00. Because it does not contain any land in the Northern Hemisphere, this time zone is exclusive to the Southern Hemisphere.
| UTC+13:00 | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | |
 World map with the time zone highlighted | |
| UTC offset | |
| UTC | UTC+13:00 |
| Current time | |
| 06:08, 20 November 2024 UTC+13:00 [refresh] | |
| Central meridian | |
| 165 degrees W | |
| Date-time group | |
As standard time (year-round)
editPrincipal cities: Apia, Atafu, Nukuʻalofa
Oceania
editMicronesia
edit- Kiribati
Polynesia
edit- New Zealand
- Samoa – Time in Samoa[2][3][4]
- Tonga
As daylight saving time (Southern Hemisphere summer)
editPrincipal cities: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Suva, Nadi
Oceania
editAustralasia
edit- New Zealand (except Chatham Islands) – New Zealand Daylight Time
Antarctica
edit- Some research bases in Antarctica, in particular the South Pole and the McMurdo Station. At New Year, these places are the first in the world to see the Sun, which is then visible at midnight.
History
editKiribati introduced a change for its eastern half on 31 December 1994, from time zones UTC−11:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC+14:00, to avoid having the country divided by the International Date Line.
Tonga has been on UTC+13:00 for many years. Daylight saving time was used in the southern summer seasons from October 1999 to January 2002, and from November 2016 to January 2017 (written 2017).[5]
UTC+13:00 was used until 2009 as a daylight time (summer in Northern Hemisphere) in the easternmost parts of Russia (Chukotka and Kamchatka) that used Kamchatka Time.
At the end of 29 December 2011 (UTC−10:00), Samoa advanced its standard time from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 (and its daylight saving time from UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00), essentially moving the international date line to the other side of the country, skipping 30 December 2011.[2][3] Following Samoa's decision, Tokelau also simultaneously advanced its standard time (used without daylight saving time), from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00.[1][3]
See also
edit- Time in New Zealand
- Time in Russia
- Time in Samoa
- UTC−11:00, which is exactly one day behind UTC+13:00.
- UTC−12:00, the last time zone to start a new day
References
edit- ^ a b "Tokelau: Wrong local time for over 100 years". timeanddate.com.
- ^ a b McCabe, Joanne (May 9, 2011). "Samoa to change time zones and move forward by a day". Metro. Archived from the original on December 28, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Samoa and Tokelau skip a day for dateline change". BBC News. December 30, 2011. Archived from the original on December 10, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
- ^ "Daylight savings scrapped". Samoa Observer. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ Clock Changes in Nukualofa, Tonga