[custom_adv] Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, to the future. [custom_adv] Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience. [custom_adv] The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), despite China spanning five geographical time zones. [custom_adv] Japan Standard Time is the same as Korean Standard Time, Indonesian Eastern Standard Time, East-Timorese Standard Time and Yakutsk Time (Russia). [custom_adv] For economic reasons, some metropolitan areas next to the U.S. border follow the U.S. Daylight Saving Time schedule instead of the Mexican schedule resulting in them being an hour off from the rest of their state for a few weeks out of the year. [custom_adv] Germany has been politically divided into East Germany and West Germany even after the start of the unix epoch, which is the date from which the tz database wants to record correct information. [custom_adv] West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa; with countries west of Benin instead using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; equivalent to UTC with no offset). [custom_adv] The main time zone of Brazil corresponds to the time at the national capital city, Brasília. All the other time zones are given as offsets to it. [custom_adv] Saudi Arabia is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north, Kuwait to the northeast, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates to the east, Oman to the southeast and Yemen to the south; it is separated from Israel and Egypt by the Gulf of Aqaba. [custom_adv] Qana, also spelled Cana or Kana, is a village in southern Lebanon located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southeast of the city of Tyre and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the border with Israel. [custom_adv] The official time signal is given by the Time and Frequency Standards Laboratory. The IANA time zone database contains only one zone, namely Kolkata. The date and time notation in India shows some specialties. [custom_adv] Its capital is Rabat, the largest city Casablanca. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Morocco claims the areas of Ceuta, Melilla, all of them under Spanish jurisdiction. [custom_adv] Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. [custom_adv] Kazakhstan is officially a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage. Kazakhstan shares borders with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and also adjoins a large part of the Caspian Sea. [custom_adv] There are eleven time zones in Russia, which currently observe times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Daylight saving time is not used in Russia (since March 2011).