EST to CAT Converter
Time Difference
Eastern Standard Time is 7 hours behind Central Africa Time
6:30 am06:30 in EST is 1:30 pm13:30 in CAT
EST to CAT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-11am in EST which corresponds to 3pm-6pm in CAT
6:30 am06:30 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
1:30 pm13:30 Central Africa Time (CAT). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
6:30 am06:30 EST / 1:30 pm13:30 CAT
EST | CAT |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 7am |
1am | 8am |
2am | 9am |
3am | 10am |
4am | 11am |
5am | 12pm (noon) |
6am | 1pm |
7am | 2pm |
8am | 3pm |
9am | 4pm |
10am | 5pm |
11am | 6pm |
12pm (noon) | 7pm |
1pm | 8pm |
2pm | 9pm |
3pm | 10pm |
4pm | 11pm |
5pm | 12am (midnight) |
6pm | 1am |
7pm | 2am |
8pm | 3am |
9pm | 4am |
10pm | 5am |
11pm | 6am |
0:00 | 7:00 |
1:00 | 8:00 |
2:00 | 9:00 |
3:00 | 10:00 |
4:00 | 11:00 |
5:00 | 12:00 |
6:00 | 13:00 |
7:00 | 14:00 |
8:00 | 15:00 |
9:00 | 16:00 |
10:00 | 17:00 |
11:00 | 18:00 |
12:00 | 19:00 |
13:00 | 20:00 |
14:00 | 21:00 |
15:00 | 22:00 |
16:00 | 23:00 |
17:00 | 0:00 |
18:00 | 1:00 |
19:00 | 2:00 |
20:00 | 3:00 |
21:00 | 4:00 |
22:00 | 5:00 |
23:00 | 6:00 |
Eastern Standard Time
Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Panama, Turks & Caicos Is, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST timezone is New York City from USA with population about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in the area are Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens
French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est
Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste
Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Start: Eastern Standard Time (EST) started on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.
End: Eastern Standard Time (EST) ends on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time starts annually the on second Sunday of March.
EST representations, usage and related time zones
- -05 - basic short
- -0500 - basic
- -05:00 - extended
- -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates five hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Romeo - Military abbreviation for EST
- R - short form of 'Romeo'
- America/Atikokan
- America/Cancun
- America/Cayman
- America/Coral_Harbour
- America/Detroit
- America/Fort_Wayne
- America/Grand_Turk
- America/Indiana/Indianapolis
- America/Indiana/Marengo
- America/Indiana/Petersburg
- America/Indiana/Vevay
- America/Indiana/Vincennes
- America/Indiana/Winamac
- America/Indianapolis
- America/Iqaluit
- America/Jamaica
- America/Kentucky/Louisville
- America/Kentucky/Monticello
- America/Louisville
- America/Montreal
- America/Nassau
- America/New_York
- America/Nipigon
- America/Panama
- America/Pangnirtung
- America/Port-au-Prince
- America/Thunder_Bay
- America/Toronto
- Canada/Eastern
- EST
- EST5EDT
- Jamaica
- US/East-Indiana
- US/Eastern
- US/Michigan
- CDT - Central Daylight Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- ET - Eastern Time
- COT - Colombia Time
- CST - Cuba Standard Time
- EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
- ECT - Ecuador Time
- PET - Peru Time
- R - Romeo Time Zone
Central Africa Time
Offset: CAT is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa
Countries: It is used in following countries: Burundi, Botswana, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CAT timezone is Khartoum from Sudan with population about 1.975 million people. Other major cities in the area are Harare, Lubumbashi, Lusaka, Omdurman
Daylight Saving: Central Africa Time (CAT) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CAT 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, Central Africa Time remains the same
CAT 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 CAT
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Africa/Blantyre
- Africa/Bujumbura
- Africa/Gaborone
- Africa/Harare
- Africa/Juba
- Africa/Khartoum
- Africa/Kigali
- Africa/Lubumbashi
- Africa/Lusaka
- Africa/Maputo
- Africa/Windhoek
- 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