How to Use time zone in a Sentence

time zone

noun
  • The White House wants the moon to have its own time zone.
    Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • All of the teams in Japan play in the same time zone and the trips are shorter.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • The Steelers play all 17 games in the Eastern time zone.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
  • The islands are on their own time zone, half an hour ahead of the mainland.
    Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
  • There’s not one right or wrong way to adjust to your new time zone.
    Bobby Laurie, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And a visit takes time, not just to get there, but also to adjust to the time zone.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The country is wider than the United States and straddles three time zones.
    Heather Chen, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Some of those require eight teams in the first season spread across at least two time zones.
    Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2023
  • Because of the time zone, Brophy gained an hour and made it within 15 minutes to the gym.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Be sure to check your local listings for your time zone.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 1 July 2022
  • And that Friday night game will be two time zones away for Cincinnati.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • In Nebraska, polls open 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. in the Central time zone and are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Mountain time zone.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
  • That’s a course in the same time zone and with similar wind patterns as North Texas.
    Dallas News, 9 May 2022
  • Chicago is same time zone as Texas, easy for my mom to come visit me.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022
  • His first several pitches weren’t in the same time zone.
    Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2022
  • But on the whole, games will be played in nine host cities spread across four time zones — ranging from 13 and 17 hours ahead of U.S. Central Time.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
  • The most impressive phase of the shower will begin around 10 p.m. on the peak night, no matter your time zone.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The Orioles haven’t played out of Eastern Time in the second half and only once have played a team from outside of that time zone.
    Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Jet-lagged, like everything had changed but I was still stuck in the earlier time zone.
    Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Feb. 2023
  • My husband is on a 24-hour time zone, where half of your life is waking up as the other half is going to sleep.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Counties on the eastern edge of a time zone are likely to see more deer being struck than those on the western side.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Some of its islands stretch into the most extended time zone on Earth: UTC+14.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Your time zone in relation to UTC determines the time and date the solstice happens for you.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 June 2022
  • Get a Jump on Jet Lag Flying across multiple time zones?
    Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The ceremony is set to air live on BET at 8pm on February 25 in the viewer’s time zone.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • An alarm, a second time zone, or even just a date are all complications.
    Brynn Wallner, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Often west coast teams would travel east on Friday to acclimate to the three-hour time zone change.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Getting Oregon or Washington would give the Big 12 a stake in every time zone of the country.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 June 2022
  • Their county is in the Mountain time zone, unlike any other in Oregon.
    Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • When all is said and done, Lapine will have directed three Sondheim classics over five months and a trio of time zones.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 5 June 2023

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