Time Difference
Central Daylight Time is 5 hours behind of Universal Time Coordinated
5:30 am05:30 in CDT is 10:30 am10:30 in UTC
Converting UTC format date to Standard time of CST or EST is straight forward. DECLARE @UTCDate DATETIME SET @UTCDate = GETUTCDATE SELECT @UTCDate AS UTC, DATEADD(hh, -6, @UTCDate) AS CST - Standard Time, DATEADD(hh, -5, @UTCDate) AS EST - Standard Time But if the given date falls under daylight saving then the above calculation. CST = Central Standard Time (UTC - 6 hours). HST = Hawaiian Standard Time (UTC - 10 hours) Data from Feb. 2004 QST, p67, 68. Return to Home Page. This time zone converter lets you visually and very quickly convert CST to UTC and vice-versa. Simply mouse over the colored hour-tiles and glance at the hours selected by the column. CST stands for Central Standard Time. UTC is known as Universal Time.
CST to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-12pm in CST which corresponds to 2pm-6pm in UTC
5:30 am05:30 Central Daylight Time (CDT). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
10:30 am10:30 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
5:30 am05:30 CDT / 10:30 am10:30 UTC
CDT | UTC |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 5am |
1am | 6am |
2am | 7am |
3am | 8am |
4am | 9am |
5am | 10am |
6am | 11am |
7am | 12pm (noon) |
8am | 1pm |
9am | 2pm |
10am | 3pm |
11am | 4pm |
12pm (noon) | 5pm |
1pm | 6pm |
2pm | 7pm |
3pm | 8pm |
4pm | 9pm |
5pm | 10pm |
6pm | 11pm |
7pm | 12am (midnight) |
8pm | 1am |
9pm | 2am |
10pm | 3am |
11pm | 4am |
0:00 | 5:00 |
1:00 | 6:00 |
2:00 | 7:00 |
3:00 | 8:00 |
4:00 | 9:00 |
5:00 | 10:00 |
6:00 | 11:00 |
7:00 | 12:00 |
8:00 | 13:00 |
9:00 | 14:00 |
10:00 | 15:00 |
11:00 | 16:00 |
12:00 | 17:00 |
13:00 | 18:00 |
14:00 | 19:00 |
15:00 | 20:00 |
16:00 | 21:00 |
17:00 | 22:00 |
18:00 | 23:00 |
19:00 | 0:00 |
20:00 | 1:00 |
21:00 | 2:00 |
22:00 | 3:00 |
23:00 | 4:00 |
Central Standard Time
Offset: CST is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Mexico City from Mexico with population about 12.294 million people. Other major cities in the area are Chicago, Houston, Iztapalapa, Ecatepec
Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places adjust time for one hour forward for daylight saving and observe Central Daylight Time (CDT).
End: CST ended and clocks were set one hour forward on Sunday, 14 March 2021, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.
Start: CST starts and clocks are set one hour back on Sunday, 07 November 2021, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.
French: HNC - Heure Normale du Centre
Spanish: CT - Tiempo Central Estándar, CT - Zona Centro
CST representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data- -06 - basic short
- -0600 - basic
- -06:00 - extended
- -0600 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates six hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Sierra - Military abbreviation for CST
- S - short form of 'Sierra'
- America/Bahia_Banderas
- America/Belize
- America/Chicago
- America/Costa_Rica
- America/El_Salvador
- America/Guatemala
- America/Indiana/Knox
- America/Indiana/Tell_City
- America/Knox_IN
- America/Managua
- America/Matamoros
- America/Menominee
- America/Merida
- America/Mexico_City
- America/Monterrey
- America/North_Dakota/Beulah
- America/North_Dakota/Center
- America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
- America/Rainy_River
- America/Rankin_Inlet
- America/Regina
- America/Resolute
- America/Swift_Current
- America/Tegucigalpa
- America/Winnipeg
- CST6CDT
- Canada/Central
- Canada/Saskatchewan
- Mexico/General
- US/Central
- US/Indiana-Starke
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
Cstimer
Time zones with the GMT -6 offset:- CST - Central Standard Time
- CT - Central Time
- MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
- EAST - Easter Island Standard Time
- GALT - Galapagos Time
- S - Sierra Time Zone
- -06 -
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
- +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.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Etc/UCT
- Etc/UTC
- Etc/Universal
- Etc/Zulu
- UCT
- UTC
- Universal
- Zulu
- 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
- GMT - GMT
- +00 -
- Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard now, time zones around the world are expressed using offsets from UTC, UTC offset is the difference in hours and minutes from UTC, a time zone can be determined by adding or subtracting the number of UTC offset.
- Central Standard Time (CST) is UTC-6:00, and Central Daylight Time (CDT) is UTC-5:00, this time zone is called Central Time Zone (CT) in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
- Support daylight saving time (DST) or summer time.
Cst Time Zone Utc
- UTC to PST
Convert to Pacific Standard Time - UTC to MST
Convert to Mountain Standard Time - UTC to EST
Convert to Eastern Standard Time - UTC to GMT
Convert to Greenwich Mean Time
- PST to CST
Convert from Pacific Standard Time - MST to CST
Convert from Mountain Standard Time - EST to CST
Convert from Eastern Standard Time - GMT to CST
Convert from Greenwich Mean Time