0 one of many equal parts into which the world is divided. In any place within each part, the particular point in the day is the same, and is an hour in front of or behind that in the parts on either side: --
1 one of 24 parts that the world is divided into so that different places can set their clocks correctly --
2 one of the twenty-four parts into which the world is divided. The time in each zone is one hour earlier than in the zone east of it, and one hour later than in the zone west of it: --
If we put ourselves more in the centre of a time zone, we can increase the amount of useful daylight.
Habits may be an inconvenience between countries in the same time zone.
I used to estimate that each of those trips cost approximately £300 more than it would have done if we were in the same time zone.
He does not demand that the time zone be changed to suit his convenience.
We are lucky in this country because of our location; we are in the right time zone.
I believe that the only compelling reason for changing a time zone is the road safety aspect.
It has the largest foreign exchange markets and the leading shipping market, it straddles the time zone and speaks the universal language of commerce.
It covers a two-hour time zone and has 13 000 islands, many different races and many different languages.
