BST to SAST Converter
Time Difference
Greenwich Mean Time is 2 hours behind South Africa Standard Time
7:30 pm19:30 in GMT is 9:30 pm21:30 in SAST
BST to SAST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-5pm in BST which corresponds to 9am-6pm in SAST
7:30 pm19:30 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
9:30 pm21:30 South Africa Standard Time (SAST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
7:30 pm19:30 GMT / 9:30 pm21:30 SAST
GMT | SAST |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 2am |
1am | 3am |
2am | 4am |
3am | 5am |
4am | 6am |
5am | 7am |
6am | 8am |
7am | 9am |
8am | 10am |
9am | 11am |
10am | 12pm (noon) |
11am | 1pm |
12pm (noon) | 2pm |
1pm | 3pm |
2pm | 4pm |
3pm | 5pm |
4pm | 6pm |
5pm | 7pm |
6pm | 8pm |
7pm | 9pm |
8pm | 10pm |
9pm | 11pm |
10pm | 12am (midnight) |
11pm | 1am |
0:00 | 2:00 |
1:00 | 3:00 |
2:00 | 4:00 |
3:00 | 5:00 |
4:00 | 6:00 |
5:00 | 7:00 |
6:00 | 8:00 |
7:00 | 9:00 |
8:00 | 10:00 |
9:00 | 11:00 |
10:00 | 12:00 |
11:00 | 13:00 |
12:00 | 14:00 |
13:00 | 15:00 |
14:00 | 16:00 |
15:00 | 17:00 |
16:00 | 18:00 |
17:00 | 19:00 |
18:00 | 20:00 |
19:00 | 21:00 |
20:00 | 22:00 |
21:00 | 23:00 |
22:00 | 0:00 |
23:00 | 1:00 |
British Summer Time
Offset: BST is 1 hour ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: Britain (UK), Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey
Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in the area are Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Saint Helier
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.
BST representations, usage and related time zones
- +01 - basic short
- +0100 - basic
- +01:00 - extended
- +0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates one hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Alpha - Military abbreviation for BST
- A - short form of 'Alpha'
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- British Summer Time - UTC +1
- Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
- Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
- Brasilia Standard Time - UTC -3
- BST - British Summer Time
- CET - Central European Time
- IST - Irish Standard Time
- WEST - Western European Summer Time
- A - Alpha Time Zone
- CET - Central European Time
- MEZ - Mitteleuropäische Zeit
- WAT - West Africa Time
- WST - Western Sahara Summer Time
- BMT - Biel Mean Time
South Africa Standard Time
Offset: SAST is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa
Countries: It is used in following countries: Lesotho, Eswatini (Swaziland), South Africa
Principal Cities: The largest city in the SAST timezone is Cape Town from South Africa with population about 3.433 million people. Other major cities in the area are Durban, Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria
Daylight Saving: South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore SAST 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, South Africa Standard Time remains the same
SAST representations, usage and related time zones
- +02 - basic short
- +0200 - basic
- +02:00 - extended
- +0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates two hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for SAST
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Africa/Johannesburg
- Africa/Maseru
- Africa/Mbabane
- CEST - Central European Summer Time
- EET - Eastern European Time
- MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
- B - Bravo Time Zone
- CAT - Central Africa Time
- IST - Israel Standard Time
- SAST - South Africa Standard Time
- WAST - West Africa Summer Time