Time Now Team

Who writes the articles on Time Now?

Articles on Time Now are written and edited by the Time Now Team, the same group that builds the site's clocks and time zone converter. The writers cover one subject only: time. That means time zone abbreviations, UTC offsets, daylight saving rules and the time difference between cities. Each article shows the date it was last updated.

The team publishes in two languages. English pages are written for readers anywhere in the world. Vietnamese pages compare every time with Vietnam time (UTC+7), because many readers in Vietnam need the time of family, partners or schools in the United States, Korea, Japan or Australia.

What topics does the Time Now Team cover?

The Time Now Team writes about the facts people need when they check or convert a time. The main topics are:

• Time zone codes such as EST, PST, CET and IST, collected in the time zone abbreviations list, with the offset and the places that use each one.
• Daylight saving time rules and the yearly clock change dates on the daylight saving time page.
• UTC, GMT and how to convert any local time to UTC.
• The local time, time zone and UTC offset of about 950 countries, capitals and cities.

Which sources does the team use?

The main source is the IANA Time Zone Database, which records the current rules and the history of every time zone in the world. For UTC we follow the BIPM, and for leap seconds the IERS. Facts set by law cite the law itself or the government that announced the change.

One example is the US daylight saving schedule. It comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which set the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November from 2007 onward. The team does not copy facts from other time websites. If two official sources disagree, the article says so and names both.

How are articles checked before they are published?

Each article goes through five checks before it is published, and a second team member signs off on the facts. The steps are:

1. The writer drafts from primary sources only.
2. Every UTC offset and clock change date is compared with the latest IANA Time Zone Database release.
3. Every conversion in tables and examples is calculated in code, not by hand.
4. A second team member reviews the facts and the language.
5. The page shows its publication date and, after each change, its last updated date.

Published pages are reviewed too. Daylight saving articles are rechecked every September, before the autumn clock changes. IANA releases a new version of its database several times a year, and each release is checked for countries we write about.

How do I report a mistake on Time Now?

Email the Time Now Team at [email protected]. Include the page address and what looks wrong, for example a city showing the wrong offset after a clock change. We check the report against the sources above. If the page is wrong, we correct it and change its last updated date.

Who runs Time Now?

Time Now is operated by PA MOBILE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED, 81 Hien Vuong Street, Phu Thanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The site is free and paid for by advertising. Advertisers have no say in what the team writes. More about the company and how the clocks stay accurate is on the About Time Now page.