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-6:00 -360 CST - Central Standard Chicago, Illinois, USA; Mexico 
City, Mexico; Saskatchewan, 
Canada 
-7:00 -420 MST - Mountain Standard Salt Lake City, Utah, USA;  
Alberta, Canada
-8:00 -480 PST - Pacific Standard Los Angeles, CA. USA; Seattle, 
WA, U SA
-9:00 -540 YST - Yukon Standard Whitehorse, Alaska, USA; 
Yukon Territory, Canada
-10:00 -600 AHST - Alaska-Hawaii Standard 
CAT - Central Alaska 
HST - Hawaii Standard
Honolulu, Hawaii
-11:00 -660 NT - Nome Midway Islands, Samoa
-12:00 -720 IDLW - International Date Line 
West Eniwitok, Kwajalein
+1:00 +60 CET - Central European 
FWT - French Winter 
MET - Middle European 
MEWT - Middle European Winter 
SWT - Swedish Winter
Paris, France; Berlin, Germany; 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 
Brussels, Belgium; Vienna, 
Austria; Madrid, Spain; Rome, 
Italy; Bern, Switzerland; 
Stockholm, Sweden; Oslo, 
Norway 
+2:00 +120 EET - Eastern European, Russia 
Zone 1 Athens, Greece; Helsinki, 
Finland; Istanbul, Turkey; 
Jerusalem, Israel; Harare, 
Zimbabwe
+3:00 +180 BT - Baghdad, Russia Zone 2 Kuwait; Nairobi, Kenya; 
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Moscow, 
Russia; Tehran, Iran
Table 5.11:  Greenwich Mean Time Offsets (continued) 
GMT 
Offset in 
Hours
GMT 
Offset in 
Minutes Common Time Zone References Geographical Reference