Pacific time zone legislated for US terriritories
This article is about a time zone legislated by the United States for American Samoa. For time in the Independent State of Samoa, see
Time in Samoa .
SST is UTC-11:00
The Samoa Time Zone [1] or Samoa Standard Time (SST )[2] observes standard time by subtracting eleven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-11:00 ). The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 165th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory .
The zone includes the U.S. territory of American Samoa , as well as the Midway Islands and the uninhabited islands of Jarvis , Palmyra , and Kingman Reef . It also includes the country of Niue .
The zone is one hour behind Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone and one hour ahead of the Howland and Baker islands , and 23 hours behind Wake Island Time Zone .
The nation of Samoa also observed the same time as the Samoa Time Zone until it moved across the International Date Line at the end of 29 December 2011; it is now 24 hours (25 hours in southern hemisphere summer) ahead of American Samoa.[3] [4]
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