Note: An Issue has been opened in the Google Transit repo to clarify the meaning of stop_timezone
& agency_timezone
.
Time - Time in the
HH:MM:SS
format (H:MM:SS
is also accepted). The time is measured from "noon minus 12h" of the service day (effectively midnight except for days on which daylight savings time changes occur). For times occurring after midnight, enter the time as a value greater than 24:00:00 inHH:MM:SS
local time for the day on which the trip schedule begins. Example:14:30:00
for 2:30PM or25:35:00
for 1:35AM on the next day.
Fun fact: if your transit system has a bus starting at 00:30:00 local wall time, then the only proper way I know to encode such bus in GTFS (static) is by defining it as
24:30:00
of the previous day. It is otherwise impossible to encode this bus on a day when time is moved back by 1 hour (that is, the calendar day, when