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1:00 pm13:00 A (UTC+1), Oct 19, 2026 = 12:00 pm12:00 WT (UTC+0), Oct 19, 2026

A is 1 hour ahead of WT.

A and WT examples

These examples always use A (UTC+1) and WT (UTC+0). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

A is 1 hour ahead of WT.

How the time difference changes

In 2026, A and WST have the same time for most of the year. From Feb 15 to Mar 22, 2026, and from Sep 20, 2026, A is 1 hour ahead of WT.

In 2026, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in A correspond to 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in WST for most of the year. At other times that year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in A correspond to 8:00 am to 5:00 pm in WT.In 2026, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in A correspond to 09:00 to 18:00 in WST for most of the year. At other times that year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in A correspond to 08:00 to 17:00 in WT.

Compare A time with WT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Alpha Time Zone is 1 hour ahead of Western Sahara Standard Time.
1:00 pm13:00 in A is 12:00 pm12:00 in WT

A to WT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10am-6pm10:00-18:00 in A which corresponds to 9am-5pm09:00-17:00 in WT

1:00 pm13:00 Alpha Time Zone (A). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
12:00 pm12:00 Western Sahara Standard Time (WT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

1:00 pm13:00 A / 12:00 pm12:00 WT

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Alpha Time Zone

Offset: A is 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Croatia, Czechia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, Faroe Islands, France, Gabon, Germany, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Hungary, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of the Congo, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Vatican City

Principal Cities: The largest city in the A time zone is Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with about 16 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Lagos, London, Kano, Ibadan.

Daylight Saving: Some places on Alpha Time Zone (A) keep the same time all year, while others use A for only part of the year and change their clocks for daylight saving time; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

Map of the areas on Alpha Time Zone (A)
A all year A part of the year

Today some of the lighter areas are on UTC+2 (CEST).

A representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +01 - basic short
  • +0100 - basic
  • +01:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of one hour to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Alpha - Military abbreviation for A
  • A - short form of 'Alpha'
Time zones with the GMT +1 offset:
  • 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

Western Sahara Standard Time

Offset: WT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Western Sahara

Principal Cities: The largest city in the WT time zone is Laayoune in Western Sahara, with about 196,331 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Dakhla, Boujdour, El Marsa, Meharrize.

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 the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.

WT 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 the zero UTC/GMT offset.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Zulu - Military abbreviation for WT
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'
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 - Coordinated Universal Time
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone