Time in Texas

Current time for most counties: 07:01, November 29, 2024 CST [refresh]
Current time for El Paso and Hudspeth counties: 06:01, November 29, 2024 MST [refresh]

Most of Texas is in the Central Time Zone with the exception being the two westernmost counties.

Northwestern Culberson County near Guadalupe Mountains National Park unofficially observes Mountain Time Zone.^[1]

IANA time zone database

The 2 zones for Texas as given by zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked * are from the zone.tab.

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	comments*	UTC offset	UTC offset DST	Note
US	+415100−0873900	America/Chicago	Central (most areas)	−06:00	−05:00
US	+394421−1045903	America/Denver	Mountain (most areas)	−07:00	−06:00

Historical

The "Panhandle and Plains" section of Texas is now in the Central Time Zone, but had a two-year period of being in the Mountain Time Zone between 1919 and 1921.^[2]

References

^ "What Time Is It? (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
^ A posting to the tzdata-history mailing list provides original documents: http://groups.google.com/group/tzdata-history/browse_thread/thread/5e0d0d24ba438e4c In short: A US government decision in March 1918 announced a change in time zone boundaries. The CT/MT boundary was to run through Texas roughly along the meridian 100w, with a bulge to the west around the towns of Sweatwater, Big Springs and San Angelo, starting January 1, 1919 at 2 am. The local Panhandle and Plains chamber of commerce was not happy in 1919 to be in another time zone than the more populated south-east of the state, and they petitioned a change. A US Congress decision of March 4, 1921, became part of the United States Code as section 265 and moved the Panhandle and Plains area back to CT.

[1] "What Time Is It? (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-22.

[2] A posting to the tzdata-history mailing list provides original documents: http://groups.google.com/group/tzdata-history/browse_thread/thread/5e0d0d24ba438e4c In short: A US government decision in March 1918 announced a change in time zone boundaries. The CT/MT boundary was to run through Texas roughly along the meridian 100w, with a bulge to the west around the towns of Sweatwater, Big Springs and San Angelo, starting January 1, 1919 at 2 am. The local Panhandle and Plains chamber of commerce was not happy in 1919 to be in another time zone than the more populated south-east of the state, and they petitioned a change. A US Congress decision of March 4, 1921, became part of the United States Code as section 265 and moved the Panhandle and Plains area back to CT.

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Time in Texas

IANA time zone database

Historical

See also

References