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Pacific Time
UTC offset
UTC-8 / UTC-7
Daylight saving
Yes — March & November
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Hollywood sets filming schedules around the 'magic hour' — the golden hour just after sunrise or before sunset. Entire blockbuster budgets are planned around LA's sun position.
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LA's golden hour is legendary because of the marine layer — morning coastal fog that burns off by noon, creating dramatic warm light no other major city quite replicates.
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LA is 3 hours behind New York. When Wall Street opens at 9:30 AM, LA traders are still in bed. The stock market opens at 6:30 AM Pacific — very early for a city known for late nights.
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LA is so far west that it's closer to Tokyo in time (17 hours difference) than to London going the other way (8 hours). The Pacific Ocean is a very big ocean.
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Los Angeles gets 284 sunny days per year, giving photographers extraordinary golden hour almost every single evening — one reason the film industry set up here in the first place.
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LA uses Pacific Time — PST (UTC-8) in winter and PDT (UTC-7) in summer. The spring clock change means LA gets later sunsets when New York is already past its longest days.
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London has two time zones per year — GMT in winter and BST in summer. The city has been confusing international call schedulers since 1847.
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Railway companies forced Britain to standardize to London time in 1847. Trains: accidentally inventors of time zones.
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British pubs used to have strict closing times set by the government during WWI to keep factory workers sober. Time literally controlled drinking.
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When London observes GMT, it shares its timezone with Iceland, Ghana, Senegal and Portugal. Quite the eclectic group.
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The speaking clock — a phone service that tells you the time — was invented in Los Angeles in 1936. People called it so much it still exists today. Just dial 123.
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