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Guides

Plain-English explanations of the calendar and clock quirks behind these tools — time zones, daylight saving, leap years, and the rest of the mess that makes date math harder than it looks.

TIME ZONES

How time zones actually work

Why the world has roughly 38 time zones instead of 24, what UTC really is, and why "GMT" and "UTC" aren't quite the same thing.

Guide

More guides — daylight saving time, leap years, and ISO weeks — are on the way.