CST Asia to UTC
Time Difference
China Standard Time is 8 hours ahead of Universal Time Coordinated
8:30 pm20:30 in CST is 12:30 pm12:30 in UTC
CST to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 4pm-6pm in CST which corresponds to 8am-10am in UTC
8:30 pm20:30 China Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
12:30 pm12:30 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
8:30 pm20:30 CST / 12:30 pm12:30 UTC
| CST | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 4pm |
| 1am | 5pm |
| 2am | 6pm |
| 3am | 7pm |
| 4am | 8pm |
| 5am | 9pm |
| 6am | 10pm |
| 7am | 11pm |
| 8am | 12am (midnight) |
| 9am | 1am |
| 10am | 2am |
| 11am | 3am |
| 12pm (noon) | 4am |
| 1pm | 5am |
| 2pm | 6am |
| 3pm | 7am |
| 4pm | 8am |
| 5pm | 9am |
| 6pm | 10am |
| 7pm | 11am |
| 8pm | 12pm (noon) |
| 9pm | 1pm |
| 10pm | 2pm |
| 11pm | 3pm |
| 0:00 | 16:00 |
| 1:00 | 17:00 |
| 2:00 | 18:00 |
| 3:00 | 19:00 |
| 4:00 | 20:00 |
| 5:00 | 21:00 |
| 6:00 | 22:00 |
| 7:00 | 23:00 |
| 8:00 | 0:00 |
| 9:00 | 1:00 |
| 10:00 | 2:00 |
| 11:00 | 3:00 |
| 12:00 | 4:00 |
| 13:00 | 5:00 |
| 14:00 | 6:00 |
| 15:00 | 7:00 |
| 16:00 | 8:00 |
| 17:00 | 9:00 |
| 18:00 | 10:00 |
| 19:00 | 11:00 |
| 20:00 | 12:00 |
| 21:00 | 13:00 |
| 22:00 | 14:00 |
| 23:00 | 15:00 |
China Standard Time
Offset: CST is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: China, Macau, Taiwan
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Shanghai from China with population about 14.609 million people. Other major cities in the area are Zhumadian, Taipei, Beijing, Nanchong
Daylight Saving: China Standard Time (CST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CST 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, China Standard Time remains the same
CST representations, usage and related time zones
- +08 - basic short
- +0800 - basic
- +08:00 - extended
- +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.
- Hotel - Military abbreviation for CST
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
- Asia/Chongqing
- Asia/Chungking
- Asia/Harbin
- Asia/Macao
- Asia/Macau
- Asia/Shanghai
- Asia/Taipei
- PRC
- ROC
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- Colombia Standard Time - UTC -5
- 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
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
- 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