In honor of More Time at the Barn – aka Daylight Savings – in the US, the blog name spelled out in time zone abbreviations. Who knew there were so many?
Réunion Time
Oral Time
Davis Time
Niue Time
Easter Island Standard Time
Yakutsk Time
Samoa Standard Time & Singapore Standard Time
South Australian Daylight Time
Afghanistan Time
Gilbert Island Time
Argentina Time
Sources
Wiki: List of time zone abbreviations & http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/time-zone-abbrevs.html
Time Zone factoids
Naming conventions, problems of, in Time Zone Abbreviations from Code of Matt: Adventures in programming, featuring Time Zones! The Internet is a weird & wonderful place.
China is one big time zone.
Several places are offset by 30 or 45 minutes.
Map & explanation of clock time versus solar time.
The poor man’s math blog: How much is time wrong around the world?
Updated, The poor man’s math blog: The time it takes to change the time
The alphabetic spelling was not hard. Wiki: List of time zone abbreviations has every letter except Q & X. Timeanddate.com: Time Zone Abbreviations – Worldwide List has Quebec & X-Ray, both military time zones. As in, Quebec the NATO call letter, not Quebec the city. Worldtimezone.com: Military Time Zones- World Map of Time Zones
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Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott
Virtual Brush Box 
I have enough trouble with daylight saving! The country should stay on one time all year, it’s idiotic. And I just heard on the radio that there are more accidents on the day after we ‘lose’ an hour’s sleep.
I’m going back to bed.
When I worked at the zoo, the birds would get surprised in the spring when dinner was “early” and then upset in the fall when it was “late.”