UTC+13:00
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 | |
| 20:57, 5 February 2021 UTC+13:00 [refresh] | |
| Central meridian | |
| 165 degrees W | |
| Date-time group | |
As standard time (all year round)
Oceania
As standard time (Southern Hemisphere winter)
Oceania
As daylight saving time (Southern Hemisphere summer)
Principal cities: Auckland, Suva
Oceania
Fiji
New Zealand (except Chatham Islands) – New Zealand Daylight Time
Antarctica
- 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
Kiribati 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).[4]
UTC+13:00 was used till 2009 as a daylight time (summer in Northern Hemisphere) in the most eastern 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.[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]
References
- "Tokelau: Wrong local time for over 100 years". timeanddate.com.
- 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.
- "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.
- Clock Changes in Nukualofa, Tonga