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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in
Central Time Zone (North America)
parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some
Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Central Standard Time (CST) is six hours behind Coordinated

Universal Time (UTC). During summer most (but not all) of the
zone uses daylight saving time (DST), and changes to Central
Daylight Time (CDT) which is five hours behind UTC.

Contents
Regions using (North American) Central Time
Canada
United States Regions in the Central Time Zone prior to
Mexico 2015 (Quintana Roo is now in the Eastern Time
Central America and Caribbean Islands Zone)
Eastern Pacific islands and other areas
UTC offset
Central Daylight Time
CST UTC6:00
Alphabetical list of major Central Time Zone metropolitan
areas CDT UTC5:00
See also
Observance of DST
References
DST is observed in certain regions of this time
External links
zone between the 2nd Sunday in March and the
1st Sunday in November.

Regions using (North DST ended Nov 5, 2017

DST begins Mar 11, 2018
American) Central Time

Canada
The province of Manitoba is the only province or territory in Canada that observes Central Time in all areas.

The following Canadian provinces and territories observe Central Time in the areas noted, while their other areas observe
Eastern Time:

Nunavut (territory): western areas (most of Kivalliq Region and part of Qikiqtaaluk Region)
Ontario (province): a portion of the northwest bordering southeastern Manitoba, in and around Kenora.
Also, most of the province of Saskatchewan is on Central Standard Time year-round, never adjusting for Daylight Saving
Time. Major exceptions include Lloydminster, a city situated on the boundary between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The
city charter stipulates that it shall observe Mountain Time and DST, putting the community on the same time as all of

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Alberta, including the major cities of Calgary and Edmonton. As a result, during the summer, clocks in the entire province
match those in Alberta, but during the winter, clocks in most of the province match those in Manitoba.

United States
Nine states are contained entirely in the Central Time Zone:

Alabama
Arkansas
Illinois
Iowa
Louisiana
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Wisconsin
Note: Although all of Alabama is legally on Central Time, Phenix City and some of the nearby community of Smiths
Station unofficially observe Eastern Time, as these areas are part of the metropolitan area of the considerably larger city of
Columbus, Georgia in the Eastern Time Zone. Lanett and Valley observe Eastern Time historically because they were
textile mill towns and the original home office of their mills was in West Point, Georgia.[1]

Seven states are split between the Central Time Zone and the Mountain Time Zone:

Kansas - all, except for Sherman, Wallace, Greeley, and Hamilton counties
Nebraska - eastern two thirds
New Mexico - Nara Visa
North Dakota - all, except for southwest regions
Oklahoma - all, except for Kenton
South Dakota - eastern half
Texas - all, except for El Paso and Hudspeth counties
Five states are split between the Central Time Zone and the Eastern Time Zone:

Florida - Florida Panhandle on Alabama border

Indiana - northwest and southwest regions
Kentucky - western half
Michigan - Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson, and Menominee counties
Tennessee - West Tennessee and Middle Tennessee

Mexico
Most of Mexicoroughly the eastern three-fourthslies in the Central Time Zone, except for six northwestern states (Baja
California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora, and *most of Nayarit) and one southeastern state (Quintana
Roo).

The federal entities of Mexico that observe Central Time:

Aguascalientes
Campeche
Coahuila

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Colima - except for the Guanajuato Nayarit - *only the San Luis Potos
Revillagigedo Islands, Guerrero municipality of Baha de State of Mexico
in which the inner Banderas, rest of the
Hidalgo Tabasco
islands use Mountain state uses Mountain
Time and the outer Jalisco Time Tamaulipas
island uses Pacific Mexico City Nuevo Len Tlaxcala
Time Michoacn Veracruz
Oaxaca
Chiapas Morelos Yucatn
Puebla
Durango Zacatecas
Quertaro

Central America and Caribbean Islands

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all use Central Standard Time year-round.

Eastern Pacific islands and other areas

The Galpagos Islands in Ecuador uses Central Standard Time all year-round; the remainder of Ecuador uses Eastern
Standard Time. Both Easter Island and Salas y Gmez Island in Chile uses Central Standard Time during the Southern
Hemisphere winter and Central Daylight Time during the Southern Hemisphere summer; the remainder of Chile uses
Atlantic Standard Time and Atlantic Daylight Time.

Central Daylight Time

Daylight saving time (DST) is in effect in much of the Central time zone between mid-March and early November. The
modified time is called Central Daylight Time (CDT) and is UTC5. In Canada, Saskatchewan does not observe a time
change. One reason that Saskatchewan does not take part in a time change is that, geographically, the entire province is
closer to the Mountain Time Zone's meridian. The province elected to move onto "permanent" daylight saving by being
part of the Central Time Zone. The only exception is the region immediately surrounding the Saskatchewan side of the
biprovincial city of Lloydminster, which has chosen to use Mountain Time with DST, synchronizing its clocks with those of
Alberta.

In those areas of the Canadian and American time zones that observe DST, beginning in 2007, the local time changes at
02:00 local standard time to 03:00 local daylight time on the second Sunday in March and returns at 02:00 local daylight
time to 01:00 local standard time on the first Sunday in November. Mexico decided not to go along with this change and
observes their horario de verano from the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. In December 2009, the
Mexican Congress allowed ten border cities, eight of which are in states that observe Central Time, to adopt the U.S.
daylight time schedule effective in 2010.

Alphabetical list of major Central Time Zone metropolitan

areas
Acapulco, Guerrero Houston, Texas Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes Huntsville, Alabama Omaha, Nebraska
Amarillo, Texas Iowa City, Iowa Panama City, Florida
Antigua Guatemala Iron Mountain, Michigan Pensacola, Florida
Arlington, Texas Jackson, Mississippi Peoria, Illinois
Austin, Texas Jackson, Tennessee Puebla City
Baton Rouge, Louisiana Janesville, Wisconsin Quad Cities, Iowa/Illinois

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Beaumont/Port Arthur, Texas Joplin, Missouri Racine, Wisconsin

Birmingham, Alabama Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas Red Lake, Ontario
Bismarck, North Dakota Kenosha, Wisconsin Regina, Saskatchewan
Bloomington, Illinois Lafayette, Louisiana Rockford, Illinois
Bowling Green, Kentucky Lawton, Oklahoma Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Len, Guanajuato St. Louis, Missouri
Champaign, Illinois Lincoln, Nebraska San Antonio, Texas
Chicago, Illinois Little Rock, Arkansas San Jos, Costa Rica
Clarksville, Tennessee Lubbock, Texas San Luis Potos City
Comarca Lagunera (Torren, Gmez Palacio, Madison, Wisconsin San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Lerdo) Managua, Nicaragua San Salvador, El Salvador
Columbia, Missouri Memphis, Tennessee Santiago de Quertaro,
Cookeville, Tennessee Mrida, Yucatn Quertaro
Cuernavaca, Morelos Mexico City Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Midland/Odessa, Texas ShreveportBossier City,
Des Moines, Iowa Louisiana
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Enid, Oklahoma Springfield, Missouri
Minneapolis-St. Paul,
Evansville, Indiana Minnesota Tampico, Tamaulipas
Fargo, North Dakota Minot, North Dakota Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Fort Walton Beach, Florida Mobile, Alabama Thompson, Manitoba
Gary, Indiana Monterrey, Nuevo Len Toluca, Estado de Mxico
Grand Forks, North Dakota Montgomery, Alabama Topeka, Kansas
Grand Rapids, Manitoba Nashville, Tennessee Tulsa, Oklahoma
Green Bay, Wisconsin New Orleans Waukegan, Illinois
Guadalajara, Jalisco Normal, Illinois Wheaton, Illinois
Guatemala City, Guatemala Wichita, Kansas
Hammond, Indiana Wichita Falls, Texas
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Zacatecas, Zacatecas

See also
Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting

References
1. http://archive.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060813/zones.shtml

External links
World time zone map (http://www.travel.com.hk/region/timezone.htm)
History of U.S. time zones and UTC conversion (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/us_tzones.php)
The official U.S. time for the Central Time Zone (https://web.archive.org/web/20070406052500/http://time.gov/timezon
e.cgi?Central%2Fd%2F-6%2Fjava) (dead link)
Cities in CST (http://www.happyzebra.com/timezones-worldclock/cst-us.php)
Official times across Canada (http://time5.nrc.ca/webclock_e.shtml)

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