PDT/PST
Pacific Daylight Time
GMT -7
PST automatically adjusted to PDT time zone, that is in use
UTC
Universal Time Coordinated
GMT +0
PHT
Philippine Time
GMT +8
Time Difference
Pacific Daylight Time is 7 hours behind Universal Time Coordinated and 15 hours behind Philippine Time and 16 hours behind Japan Standard Time
5:30 pm17:30 in PDT is 12:30 am00:30 in UTC and is 8:30 am08:30 in PHT and is 9:30 am09:30 in JST
PST to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-10am in PST which corresponds to 4pm-6pm in UTC
PST to PHT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5am-7am in PST which corresponds to 9pm-11pm in PHT
PST to JST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 4:30am-6:30am in PST which corresponds to 9:30pm-11:30pm in JST
5:30 pm17:30 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
12:30 am00:30 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
8:30 am08:30 Philippine Time (PHT). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
9:30 am09:30 Japan Standard Time (JST). Offset UTC +9:00 hours
5:30 pm17:30 PDT / 12:30 am00:30 UTC / 8:30 am08:30 PHT / 9:30 am09:30 JST
| PDT | UTC | PHT | JST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 7am | 3pm | 4pm |
| 1am | 8am | 4pm | 5pm |
| 2am | 9am | 5pm | 6pm |
| 3am | 10am | 6pm | 7pm |
| 4am | 11am | 7pm | 8pm |
| 5am | 12pm (noon) | 8pm | 9pm |
| 6am | 1pm | 9pm | 10pm |
| 7am | 2pm | 10pm | 11pm |
| 8am | 3pm | 11pm | 12am (midnight) |
| 9am | 4pm | 12am (midnight) | 1am |
| 10am | 5pm | 1am | 2am |
| 11am | 6pm | 2am | 3am |
| 12pm (noon) | 7pm | 3am | 4am |
| 1pm | 8pm | 4am | 5am |
| 2pm | 9pm | 5am | 6am |
| 3pm | 10pm | 6am | 7am |
| 4pm | 11pm | 7am | 8am |
| 5pm | 12am (midnight) | 8am | 9am |
| 6pm | 1am | 9am | 10am |
| 7pm | 2am | 10am | 11am |
| 8pm | 3am | 11am | 12pm (noon) |
| 9pm | 4am | 12pm (noon) | 1pm |
| 10pm | 5am | 1pm | 2pm |
| 11pm | 6am | 2pm | 3pm |
| 0:00 | 7:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 |
| 1:00 | 8:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 |
| 2:00 | 9:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 |
| 3:00 | 10:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 |
| 4:00 | 11:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 |
| 5:00 | 12:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 |
| 6:00 | 13:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 |
| 7:00 | 14:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 |
| 8:00 | 15:00 | 23:00 | 0:00 |
| 9:00 | 16:00 | 0:00 | 1:00 |
| 10:00 | 17:00 | 1:00 | 2:00 |
| 11:00 | 18:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 |
| 12:00 | 19:00 | 3:00 | 4:00 |
| 13:00 | 20:00 | 4:00 | 5:00 |
| 14:00 | 21:00 | 5:00 | 6:00 |
| 15:00 | 22:00 | 6:00 | 7:00 |
| 16:00 | 23:00 | 7:00 | 8:00 |
| 17:00 | 0:00 | 8:00 | 9:00 |
| 18:00 | 1:00 | 9:00 | 10:00 |
| 19:00 | 2:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 |
| 20:00 | 3:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 |
| 21:00 | 4:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 |
| 22:00 | 5:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 |
| 23:00 | 6:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
Pacific Standard Time
Offset: PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Canada, Mexico, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the PST timezone is Los Angeles from USA with population about 3.793 million people. Other major cities in the area are Vancouver, Tijuana, San Diego, San Jose
French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique
Spanish: PT - Tiempo del Pacífico, PT - Zona Noroeste
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
End: Pacific Standard Time (PST) has ended on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on second Sunday of March.
Start: Pacific Standard Time (PST) starts on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.
PST representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
- -08 - basic short
- -0800 - basic
- -08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
- -0800 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
- Uniform - Military abbreviation for PST
- U - short form of 'Uniform'
IANA/Olson: Reflects PST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
- America/Ensenada
- America/Los_Angeles
- America/Santa_Isabel
- America/Tijuana
- America/Vancouver
- Canada/Pacific
- Mexico/BajaNorte
- PST8PDT
- US/Pacific
PST Abbreviation: Several time zones share PST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
- Pacific Standard Time - UTC -8
- Pitcairn Standard Time - UTC -8
- Peru Standard Time - UTC -5
Time zones with the GMT -8 offset:
- AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
- PST - Pacific Standard Time
- PT - Pacific Time
- PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
- U - Uniform Time Zone
Universal Time Coordinated
Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.
UTC representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
IANA/Olson: Reflects UTC time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
- Etc/UCT
- Etc/UTC
- Etc/Universal
- Etc/Zulu
- UCT
- UTC
- Universal
- Zulu
Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
Philippine Time
Offset: PHT is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
PHT representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
- +08 - basic short
- +0800 - basic
- +08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
- +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
- Hotel - Military abbreviation for PHT
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
Time zones with the GMT +8 offset:
- ACT - ASEAN Common Time
- AWST - Australian Western Standard Time
- BNT - Brunei Darussalam Time
- CAST - Casey Time
- CHOT - Choibalsan Time
- CST - China Standard Time
- H - Hotel Time Zone
- HKT - Hong Kong Time
- HOVST - Hovd Summer Time
- IRKT - Irkutsk Time
- KRAST - Krasnoyarsk Summer Time
- MYT - Malaysia Time
- PHT - Philippine Time
- SGT - Singapore Time
- ULAT - Ulaanbaatar Time
- WITA - Central Indonesian Time
Japan Standard Time
Offset: JST is 9 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: Japan
Principal Cities: The largest city in the JST timezone is Tokyo from Japan with population about 8.337 million people. Other major cities in the area are Yokohama, Osaka shi, Nagoya shi, Sapporo
Daylight Saving: Japan Standard Time (JST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore JST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, Japan Standard Time remains the same
JST representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
- +09 - basic short
- +0900 - basic
- +09:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
- +0900 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates nine hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
- India - Military abbreviation for JST
- I - short form of 'India'
IANA/Olson: Reflects JST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
- Asia/Tokyo
- Japan
Time zones with the GMT +9 offset:
- AWDT - Australian Western Daylight Time
- CHOST - Choibalsan Summer Time
- I - India Time Zone
- IRKST - Irkutsk Summer Time
- JST - Japan Standard Time
- KST - Korea Standard Time
- PWT - Palau Time
- TLT - East Timor Time
- ULAST - Ulaanbaatar Summer Time
- WIT - Eastern Indonesian Time
- YAKT - Yakutsk Time
