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I was reading a question on Travel.SE. The asker was asking whether the time on his ticket was in Daylight Savings Time or in standard time. I would imagine flight schedules are supposed to be time-zone/DST agnostic so as to avoid any potential confusion and timezone conversions.

A commenter mentioned UTC time, which makes sense to me.

So my question is: is there a standard time zone or other time standard used for tickets and/or flight schedules?

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    $\begingroup$ @Him Not really a duplicate, but indeed worth pointing the user in that direction to explain why Zulu is used in Aviation. $\endgroup$
    – SentryRaven
    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:56
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    $\begingroup$ Moonman, also reference this: Does DST affect local airspace?. $\endgroup$
    – SentryRaven
    Mar 22, 2016 at 7:58
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    $\begingroup$ I call time on my ticket as my flight schedule. Are you asking about flight schedule as seen from passenger or pilot? $\endgroup$
    – vasin1987
    Mar 22, 2016 at 9:11

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Customer facing documents like boarding passes and itineraries typically show local times for ease of use. Just use airport clocks. I would not trust the flying public to compute UTC. It would be chaos.

Crew facing documents will usually be set to UTC, or zulu time.

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