Is there a standard time zone for flight schedules?

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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?

@Him Not really a duplicate, but indeed worth pointing the user in that direction to explain why Zulu is used in Aviation. — SentryRaven, Mar 22 '16 at 07:56
Moonman, also reference this: Does DST affect local airspace?. — SentryRaven, Mar 22 '16 at 07:58
I call time on my ticket as my flight schedule. Are you asking about flight schedule as seen from passenger or pilot? — vasin1987, Mar 22 '16 at 09:11

acpilot · Answer 1 · 2016-03-22T06:24:10.497

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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.

edited Mar 22 '16 at 06:24

answered Mar 22 '16 at 06:17

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