Almost all of Nevada is in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC -8). The few exceptions that exist all observe Mountain Time (UTC -7) and are close to the borders of Idaho or Utah. Other than these minor exceptions, Nevada is the only non coastal state to be entirely on Pacific Time. Most of Idaho uses Mountain Time, and Arizona is officially on Mountain Time except for the 2/3 of the year when Daylight Saving Time is in effect, which they don't observe (other than the Navajo Nation).

Mountain Time is officially observed close to the border to Utah in:

Mountain Time is also unofficially observed in the following Idaho border areas:[1]

IANA time zone database

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The zones for Nevada as given by zone.tab of the IANA time zone database, columns marked * are from the zone.tab:[5]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* comments* UTC offset UTC offset DST Note
US +340308−1181434 America/Los_Angeles Pacific −08:00 −07:00
US +433649−1161209 America/Boise Mountain - ID (south), OR (east) −07:00 −06:00

References

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  1. ^ "OnTimeZone.com Exceptions, Oddities, and Notes". OnTimeZone.com. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  2. ^ "Jackpot, Nevada Current Local Time and Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  3. ^ "Owyhee, Nevada Current Local Time and Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  4. ^ "Mountain City, Nevada Current Local Time and Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  5. ^ ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/northamerica

See also

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