Adding cities

To add a new city, choose Pane > Cities & Time Zones to open the Cities & Time Zones pane and click the New City button.

1. Enter your new city's name and country in the City and Country fields.

2. If available, enter a weather station's four-character ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) location indicator in the Weather station indicator field.

To find the closest weather station and its ICAO location indicator, connect to the Internet and choose Help > Lookup Weather Station Indicator. Your browser will take you to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Station Information web pages which provide all weather stations and their indicators. Tell me more

3. Enter your new city's geographical coordinates in the Latitude and Longitude fields. To switch to South latitudes or West longitudes, click the N or E button, respectively.

To find your city's geographical coordinates, connect to the Internet and choose Help > Lookup Latitude & Longitude. Your browser will take you to the GeoNames geographical database which you can query. Tell me more

4. Enter your new city's standard offset in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). To switch to negative UTC offsets, click the + button.

To find your city's standard UTC offset, connect to the Internet and choose Help > Lookup UTC Offset & DST. Your browser will take you to the time and date.com site and its Current Time search. Tell me more

5. If your new city observes daylight-saving time, select the Daylight-saving time checkbox and specify the corresponding adjustment. If daylight-saving time is observed just during the summer, select the Part of the year radio button and specify start and end dates. Otherwise, select the All year round radio button.

If during the summer your city suspends daylight-saving time and then resumes it, you can indicate two separate daylight-saving time periods. Specify the start and end dates of the first period, click the Add (+) button to add a second period, and specify the start and end dates of the second period. To remove a period, click the corresponding Delete (-) button.

To quickly set your city's daylight-saving time information, click the DST Rules button to open the DST Rules panel, select a country or region in the list and click the Apply Rule button.

If your city's country or region does not appear in the DST Rules panel, then it either does not observe daylight-saving time or has no fixed daylight-saving time rule. To lookup your city's daylight-saving information for the current year, connect to the Internet and choose Help > Lookup UTC Offset & DST. Your browser will take you to the time and date.com site and its Current Time search. Tell me more

6. Enter your new city's standard time zone abbreviation in the Standard time zone field. If your city observes daylight-saving time, enter its daylight time zone abbreviation in the Daylight time zone text field.

Once you have specified your city's offset from UTC and daylight-saving time information, you can quickly set its standard and daylight time zone abbreviation by clicking the associated Time zones drop-down menu and choosing the desired time zone from the displayed menu.

Click OK to close the dialog and add the new city.

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