World Time

Status of this Document

This page is no longer maintained. It is left in place for historical reasons.

Time on the Internet

Time is a funny concept and it turns out to be very difficult to maintain on the Internet.

Specs and Notes

Jeff Mogul, "Generation of the Age header field in HTTP/1.1", Internet Draft draft-mogul-http-age, September 1997
Misha Wolf, Charles Wicksteed, "Date and Time Formats", W3C Note, September 1997

Selected World Time Zones

Check out the time zone page with current time in hundreds of cities.

Thanks to Bert Bos for providing this time applet! I only use the JDK/1.1 version of the applet here so if you have an old browser then it may not work.

US Pacific (PT)	US Eastern (ET)	Universal (UTC/GMT)	Central European (CET)	Japan (JT)
Your browser is not configured to show Java 1.1 applets. This would show a clock with the time in the US Pacific timezone.	Your browser is not configured to show Java 1.1 applets. This would show a clock with the time in the US Eastern timezone.	Your browser is not configured to show Java 1.1 applets. This would show a clock with the current UTC time.	Your browser is not configured to show Java 1.1 applets. This would show a clock with the time in central European timezone.	Your browser is not configured to show Java 1.1 applets. This would show a clock with the time in Japan.

Time Resources

The Synchronization Server - the latest information on Network Time Protocol (NTP)
A Summary of the International Standard Date and Time Notation
Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory
The National Earth Orientation Service (NEOS) who keeps track of leap seconds
The Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides time and frequency services for the US.
The Yahoo index on time

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
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