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    century, most towns kept their own local time. The standardization of time zones started in 1884 in the US. The time-zone map is a hodgepodge — a jigsaw puzzle...
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    This is a list of time zones from release 2024a of the tz database. Canonical - The primary, preferred zone name. Link - An alternative name (alias) which...
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  • prisons Police abolition movement Abolition of suffering Abolitionism (animal rights), related to veganism Abolition of time zones Abolition of borders All...
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  • representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent...
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    A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between...
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  • The military time zones are a standardized, uniform set of time zones for expressing time across different regions of the world, named after the NATO phonetic...
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    List of military time zones List of time zones by country List of time zone abbreviations List of tz database time zones Time zone Time zone abolition "OnTimeZone...
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  • of the meaning. List of tz database time zones List of military time zones Lists of time zones Time zone abolition "ALMT – Alma-Ata Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)"...
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    There are 11 time zones in Russia, which currently observe times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Daylight saving time (DST) has not been used in...
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  • date always falls on the same day of the week. A major feature of the calendar system is the abolition of time zones. While many calendar reforms aim to...
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  • Time in Chile is divided into three time zones. Most of Continental Chile uses the time offset UTC−04:00 in winter time and UTC−03:00 in summer time, while...
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  • of monthly observation of the new moon to declare the beginning of the new month in each country separately. Abolition of time zones Determination of...
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  • The abolition of Prussia took place on 25 February 1947 through a decree of the Allied Control Council, the governing body of post-World War II occupied...
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    Steve Hanke (category University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty)
    the abolition of time zones. With the Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar, every calendar date would always fall on the same day of the week. Some of the advantages...
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    police abolition movement is a political movement, mostly active in the United States, that advocates replacing policing with other systems of public...
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    Eastern European Time (EET). As a result, the time differences across European time zones remain constant. North America coordination of the clock change...
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  • "The Abolition of Work" is an essay written by Bob Black in 1985. It was part of Black's first book, an anthology of essays entitled The Abolition of Work...
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  • opportunities for entrepreneurs were opened only after the abolition of serfdom in 1861. The power of the landowners over the peasants was abolished, and the...
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    north-east of Namibia clocks were not changed and remained on Central Africa Time all year round so that during winter time, Namibia spanned two time zones. The...
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  • unless allowed to by Section 10. The Natives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act of 1952, commonly known as the Pass Laws Act, repealed...
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    states on the abolition of border controls. The Agreement was supplemented in 1990 by the Schengen Convention, which proposed the abolition of internal border...
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    harmonisation of visa policies. In 1990, the Agreement was supplemented by the Schengen Convention which proposed the complete abolition of systematic internal...
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    enforce the abolition of slavery included the British Preventative Squadron and the American African Slave Trade Patrol, the abolition of slavery in the...
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    in 1868, the nine bugyō-ruled zones became fu (府), while the township-ruled zones and the rest of the bugyo-ruled zones became ken (県). Later, in 1871...
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    affects the prostitutes.[citation needed] Those who support prohibition or abolition of prostitution argue that keeping prostitution illegal is the best way...
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    the formal abolition of the practice. Slavery was formally abolished in 1962. Many members of the Afro-Saudi minority are descendants of the former slaves...
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    States). Following the abolition of the Nguyễn dynasty in 1945 Emperor Bảo Đại handed over 3000 antiques (weighing around 800 kilograms) of antiques, including...
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  • existing autonomous zones are 'temporary.' Some are ... more-or-less 'permanent.'" Hence, the concept of the permanent autonomous zone. The titular section...
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    Black Sea slave trade (category Economy of the Republic of Venice)
    Ages, trading colonies of Venice and Genoa along the Northern Black Sea coasts used the instable political and religious border zones to buy captives and...
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    From the 1960s onwards, abolition accelerated: 4 countries abolished capital punishment in the 1960s (a record up to that time for any decade), 11 in the...
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