World Time, Date and Time Zones. Find the current time in various cities around the world. Determine Local time in other countries with different Time Zones. The table shows the current local time in ...

Not surprisingly, Western China is the deepest red. All of China’s clocks are set to Beijing time, meaning that solar noon happens at about 3 p.m. in the far-western Xinjiang province.

The best clocks now lose only a second every 300 million years – and those tiny time-keeping differences are changing our world. David Robson reports.

NIST-F4 is a cesium fountain clock, which is considered the cream of the crop — there are fewer than 20 of its kind operating in the entire world. Fountain clocks are not constantly running like ...

Spain continues to use Central European Time when, by geography, it should be an hour earlier. General Francisco Franco, the country’s then-dictator, changed Spain’s time zone in 1940 to align ...

According to scientists at NIST in Boulder, their newest atomic clock, the NIST-F4, will help track time more precisely and help put global time on a more accurate frequency.

Between 2008 and 2016, Pousttchi traveled the globe to all 24 time zones, in order to photograph a prominent local clock, always at the same time of day—five minutes before two in the afternoon.