World time zones

Soldiers Magazine, Jan, 2005

Determining Your Local Time

* West of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) line:

Add the time zone number to local time to obtain UTC. Subtract time zone number from UTC to obtain local time.

* East of the UTC line:

Subtract the time zone number from local time to obtain UTC. Add time zone number to UTC to obtain local time.

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