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10:30 pm22:30 ACDT (UTC+10:30), Oct 24, 2026 = 8:00 pm20:00 AWST (UTC+8), Oct 24, 2026

ACDT is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of AWST.

ACDT and AWST examples

These examples always use ACDT (UTC+10:30) and AWST (UTC+8). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

ACDT is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of AWST.

How the time difference changes

Depending on seasonal clock changes, ACST is 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of AWST or ACDT is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of AWST.

Depending on seasonal clock changes, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in ACST correspond to 7:30 am to 4:30 pm in AWST or working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in ACDT correspond to 6:30 am to 3:30 pm in AWST.Depending on seasonal clock changes, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in ACST correspond to 07:30 to 16:30 in AWST or working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in ACDT correspond to 06:30 to 15:30 in AWST.

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

Time Difference

Australian Central Daylight Time is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Australian Western Standard Time.
10:30 pm22:30 in ACDT is 8:00 pm20:00 in AWST

ACDT to AWST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 11:30am-6pm11:30-18:00 in ACDT which corresponds to 9am-3:30pm09:00-15:30 in AWST

10:30 pm22:30 Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT). Offset UTC +10:30 hours
8:00 pm20:00 Australian Western Standard Time (AWST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours

10:30 pm22:30 ACDT / 8:00 pm20:00 AWST

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Australian Central Daylight Time

Offset: ACDT is 10 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Australia

Principal Cities: The largest city in the ACDT time zone is Adelaide in Australia, with about 1.469 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Mount Gambier, Mount Barker, Whyalla, Gawler.

Map of the areas on Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT)
ACDT part of the year

Today all shaded areas are on ACDT.

Daylight Saving: Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Australian Central Standard Time (ACST).

123456789101112Start: Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT) started on Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, October 4, 2026, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the first Sunday of October.

123456789101112End: Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT) ends on Sunday, April 4, 2027 at 3:00 am03:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, April 4, 2027, 2:00 am02:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of April.

See Australia daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.

ACDT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +1030 - basic
  • +10:30 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +1030 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (10) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of ten hours and thirty minutes to the east of the zero meridian.
IANA/Olson: Reflects ACDT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Australia/Adelaide
  • Australia/Broken_Hill
  • Australia/South
  • Australia/Yancowinna
Time zones with the GMT +10:30 offset:
  • ACDT - Australian Central Daylight Time
  • LHST - Lord Howe Standard Time

Australian Western Standard Time

Offset: AWST is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Australia

Principal Cities: The largest city in the AWST time zone is Perth in Australia, with about 2.384 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Mandurah, Bunbury, Geraldton, Albany.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) do not change for daylight saving time, so AWST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

AWST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +08 - basic short
  • +0800 - basic
  • +08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eight hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Hotel - Military abbreviation for AWST
  • H - short form of 'Hotel'
IANA/Olson: Reflects AWST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Australia/Perth
  • Australia/West
Time zones with the GMT +8 offset:
  • 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