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$TimeZone
$TimeZone
gives the current time zone to assume for dates and times.
MORE INFORMATION
The time zone gives the number of hours which must be added to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to obtain local time.
U.S. Eastern Standard Time (EST) corresponds to time zone
-5
.
Daylight Saving Time corrections must be included in the time zone, so U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) corresponds to time zone
-4
.
$TimeZone
is set at the beginning of your
Mathematica
session to the time zone specified by your computer operating system.
$TimeZone=
z
resets the current time zone for purposes of functions like
DateString
,
DateList
and
AbsoluteTime
.
Settings for
$TimeZone
need not be integers.
Mathematica
assumes that the time returned by the system clock on your computer system is for the time zone corresponding to
$TimeZone
.
SEE ALSO
TimeZone
AbsoluteTime
DateList
DateString
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Date and Time Functions
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