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The United Kingdom is on standard time: GMT (UTC+0) until Sun, Mar 28, 2027.

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9:00 am09:00 ADT (UTC-3), Oct 31, 2026 = 12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 31, 2026

ADT is 3 hours behind GMT.

ADT and BST examples

These examples always use ADT (UTC-3) and BST (UTC+1). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

ADT is 4 hours behind BST.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, ADT is 4 hours behind BST. From Oct 25 to Nov 1, 2026, from Mar 14 to Mar 28, 2027, and from Oct 31 to Nov 7, 2027, ADT is 3 hours behind GMT. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, AST is 4 hours behind GMT.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in ADT correspond to 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm in BST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in AST correspond to 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm in GMT or working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in ADT correspond to 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm in GMT.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in ADT correspond to 13:00 to 22:00 in BST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in AST correspond to 13:00 to 22:00 in GMT or working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in ADT correspond to 12:00 to 21:00 in GMT.

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

Time Difference

Atlantic Daylight Time is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.
9:00 am09:00 in ADT is 12:00 pm12:00 in GMT

ADT to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-3pm09:00-15:00 in ADT which corresponds to 12pm-6pm12:00-18:00 in GMT

9:00 am09:00 Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT). Offset UTC -3:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

9:00 am09:00 ADT / 12:00 pm12:00 GMT

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Atlantic Daylight Time

Offset: ADT is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Bermuda, Canada, Greenland

Principal Cities: The largest city in the ADT time zone is Halifax in Canada, with about 471,559 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Sydney, Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton.

French: HAA - Heure Avancée de l'Atlantique

Map of the areas on Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT)
ADT part of the year

Today all shaded areas are on ADT.

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

123456789101112Start: Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT) started on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March.

123456789101112End: Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT) ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 1, 2026, 1:00 am01:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November.

See Canada daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.

ADT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -03 - basic short
  • -0300 - basic
  • -03:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0300 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of three hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Papa - Military abbreviation for ADT
  • P - short form of 'Papa'
IANA/Olson: Reflects ADT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • America/Glace_Bay
  • America/Goose_Bay
  • America/Halifax
  • America/Moncton
  • America/Thule
  • Atlantic/Bermuda
  • Canada/Atlantic
Time zones with the GMT -3 offset:
  • ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
  • PMT - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • AMST - Amazon Summer Time
  • ART - Argentina Time
  • BRT - Brasilia Time
  • CLST - Chile Summer Time
  • FKST - Falkland Islands Summer Time
  • FKT - Falkland Islands Time
  • GFT - French Guiana Time
  • P - Papa Time Zone
  • PYST - Paraguay Summer Time
  • PYT - Paraguay Time
  • SRT - Suriname Time
  • UYT - Uruguay Time

British Summer Time

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

Countries using this time zone: Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom

Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield.

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.

Current time in the United Kingdom: UK time now

Map of the areas on British Summer Time (BST)
BST part of the year

Today the shaded areas are on UTC+0 (GMT).

BST 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 BST
  • A - short form of 'Alpha'
IANA/Olson: Reflects BST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Europe/Belfast
  • Europe/Guernsey
  • Europe/Isle_of_Man
  • Europe/Jersey
  • Europe/London
  • GB
  • GB-Eire
BST Abbreviation: Several time zones share BST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • British Summer Time - UTC +1
  • Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
  • Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
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