Word origin · etymology
Descriptive English compound.
Zone means a belt or region; time zone names a region sharing civil-time rules, not necessarily one unchanging offset.
How we know · epistemology
Historical civil rules
A zone database records political clock rules, including changes over time. These records can be revised, especially for older dates; a present-day offset is insufficient for historical conversion.
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