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CDT/CST
Central Daylight Time
GMT -5
CST automatically adjusted to CDT time zone, that is in use
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
GMT +0
Time Difference
Central Daylight Time is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
9:30 am09:30 in CDT is 2:30 pm14:30 in GMT
CST to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-12pm in CST which corresponds to 2pm-6pm in GMT
9:30 am09:30 Central Daylight Time (CDT). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
2:30 pm14:30 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
9:30 am09:30 CDT / 2:30 pm14:30 GMT
CDT | GMT |
---|---|
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
French: HNC - Heure Normale du Centre
Spanish: CT - Tiempo Central Estándar, CT - Zona Centro

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 Central Daylight Time (CDT).
End: Central Standard Time (CST) 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: Central Standard Time (CST) 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.
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
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
- -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.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
- Sierra - Military abbreviation for CST
- S - short form of 'Sierra'
IANA/Olson: Reflects CST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
- America/Bahia_Banderas
- America/Belize
- America/Chicago
- America/Chihuahua
- 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/Ojinaga
- 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
CST Abbreviation: Several time zones share CST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- Colombia Standard Time - UTC -5
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
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in the area are Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

GMT 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 GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
IANA/Olson: Reflects GMT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
- Africa/Abidjan
- Africa/Accra
- Africa/Bamako
- Africa/Banjul
- Africa/Bissau
- Africa/Conakry
- Africa/Dakar
- Africa/Freetown
- Africa/Lome
- Africa/Monrovia
- Africa/Nouakchott
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Africa/Sao_Tome
- Africa/Timbuktu
- America/Danmarkshavn
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Eire
- Etc/GMT
- Etc/GMT+0
- Etc/GMT-0
- Etc/GMT0
- Etc/Greenwich
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Dublin
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- GMT
- GMT+0
- GMT-0
- GMT0
- Greenwich
- Iceland
GMT Abbreviation: Several time zones share GMT abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
- Greenwich Mean Time - UTC +0
- GMT+03:00 - UTC +3
- GMT - UTC +1
- GMT+06:00 - UTC +6
- GMT-01:00 - UTC -1
- GMT+11:00 - UTC +11
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
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