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Time in Timor-Leste

East Timore Timezone

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7805331 ↗
Source-derived summary

Timor-Leste uses UTC+09:00. In the west, the country borders the UTC+08:00 zone of Central Indonesia, and in the east, the UTC+09:00 zone of Eastern Indonesia. Daylight saving time has never observed in Timor-Leste. Timor-Leste shares the same time zone with Japan Standard Time, Korean Standard Time, Pyongyang Time (North Korea), Eastern Indonesia Standard Time, Palau Time, and Yakutsk Time (Russia).

IANA time zone database

The IANA time zone database contains one zone for Timor-Leste in the file zone.tab, which is named Asia/Dili.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Time in Timor-Leste” is east Timore Timezone. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Time, Timor-Leste and East, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 82-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Time, Timor-Leste and East is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “east Timore Timezone” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7805331. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Time in Timor-Leste”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Time in Timor-Leste primary sources, Time in Timor-Leste archive and Time research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Time in Timor-Leste”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Time in Timor-Leste” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.