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10:30 pm22:30 ACDT (UTC+10:30), Oct 18, 2026 = 9:00 pm21:00 KST (UTC+9), Oct 18, 2026

ACDT is 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of KST.

ACDT and KST examples

These examples always use ACDT (UTC+10:30) and KST (UTC+9). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

ACDT is 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of KST.

How the time difference changes

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

Depending on seasonal clock changes, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in ACST correspond to 8:30 am to 5:30 pm in KST or working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in ACDT correspond to 7:30 am to 4:30 pm in KST.Depending on seasonal clock changes, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in ACST correspond to 08:30 to 17:30 in KST or working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in ACDT correspond to 07:30 to 16:30 in KST.

Compare ACDT time with KST 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 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of Korea Standard Time.
10:30 pm22:30 in ACDT is 9:00 pm21:00 in KST

ACDT to KST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10:30am-6pm10:30-18:00 in ACDT which corresponds to 9am-4:30pm09:00-16:30 in KST

10:30 pm22:30 Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT). Offset UTC +10:30 hours
9:00 pm21:00 Korea Standard Time (KST). Offset UTC +9:00 hours

10:30 pm22:30 ACDT / 9:00 pm21:00 KST

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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

Korea Standard Time

Offset: KST is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: North Korea, South Korea

Principal Cities: The largest city in the KST time zone is Seoul in South Korea, with about 10.349 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Busan, Pyongyang, Incheon, Daegu.

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

KST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +09 - basic short
  • +0900 - basic
  • +09:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0900 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of nine hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • India - Military abbreviation for KST
  • I - short form of 'India'
IANA/Olson: Reflects KST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Asia/Pyongyang
  • Asia/Seoul
  • ROK
KST Abbreviation: Several time zones share KST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Korea Standard Time - UTC +9
  • Pyongyang Time - UTC +8:30
Time zones with the GMT +9 offset:
  • AWDT - Australian Western Daylight Time
  • CHOST - Choibalsan Summer Time
  • I - India Time Zone
  • IRKST - Irkutsk Summer Time
  • JST - Japan Standard Time
  • KST - Korea Standard Time
  • PWT - Palau Time
  • TLT - East Timor Time
  • ULAST - Ulaanbaatar Summer Time
  • WIT - Eastern Indonesian Time
  • YAKT - Yakutsk Time