Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the twenty-four regions or divisions of the globe approximately coinciding with meridians at successive hours from Greenwich Observatory.
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- noun Alternative form of
time zone .
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Examples
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TV households — about what the network promised advertisers and up 13% from NBC's 2006 Torino Games, which had more time-zone challenges and had fewer than half as many U.S. medals in the lowest-rated Games since 1988.
TV ratings as expected while NHL hopes for Olympic bounce 2010
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We have not heard anything otherwise, and there seems to be a time-zone confusion.
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To me, that sounds like we are very close to a solution if only someone from this time-zone could call the customer and talk them through it.
We need tech knowledge in tech workers — Fusion Despatches 2010
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"They operated on a strict weekdays, nine-to-five Beijing time-zone schedule."
Oil Firms Hit by Hackers From China, Report Says Nathan Hodge 2011
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Vancouver doesn't present the time-zone complications of Beijing, when NBC sometimes left its "live" onscreen graphic on-air even when annoying sticklers pointed out it wasn't exactly live.
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Wonder if I could talk the Tech Support Duty Manager into shifting to a local time-zone by appealing to her/his geek-sense?
We need tech knowledge in tech workers — Fusion Despatches 2010
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To me, that sounds like we are very close to a solution if only someone from this time-zone could call the customer and talk them through it.
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Coupled with the fact that the call centre wasn't in my time-zone, you'll understand why we immigrants hate the phone system so much.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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Wonder if I could talk the Tech Support Duty Manager into shifting to a local time-zone by appealing to her/his geek-sense?
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An earlier version of today's item went out on Jan. 4; that overstated how much information OS X's time-zone interface displays about your location.
PostPoints tip: Have your Mac pick your time zone Rob Pegoraro 2011
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