What is the difference between boundary conditions and initial conditions?

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What is the difference between boundary conditions and initial conditions?

I have two condition. The first is a boundary condition

\begin{equation} \theta (\mathbf{x},t)=k(\mathbf{x},t),\hspace{0.2cm}\mathbf{x} \in A, t>0 \end{equation}

And the second is the initial condition \begin{equation} \theta (\mathbf{x},0)=h(\mathbf{x}),\hspace{0.2cm}\mathbf{x} \in B, t=0 \end{equation}.

Why $t=0$ is not taken in boundary condition and in initial condition why not $t>0$?