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5:00 pm17:00 ALMT (UTC+5), Oct 17, 2026 = 6:30 pm18:30 CCT (UTC+6:30), Oct 17, 2026

ALMT is 1 hour and 30 minutes behind CCT.

ALMT and CCT examples

These examples always use ALMT (UTC+5) and CCT (UTC+6:30). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

ALMT is 1 hour and 30 minutes behind CCT.

How the time difference changes

ALMT is 1 hour and 30 minutes behind CCT year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in ALMT correspond to 10:30 am to 7:30 pm in CCT.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in ALMT correspond to 10:30 to 19:30 in CCT.

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

Time Difference

Alma-Ata Time is 1 hour and 30 minutes behind Cocos Islands Time.
5:00 pm17:00 in ALMT is 6:30 pm18:30 in CCT

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

5:00 pm17:00 Alma-Ata Time (ALMT). Offset UTC +5:00 hours
6:30 pm18:30 Cocos Islands Time (CCT). Offset UTC +6:30 hours

5:00 pm17:00 ALMT / 6:30 pm18:30 CCT

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Alma-Ata Time

Offset: ALMT is 5 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Kazakhstan

Principal Cities: The largest city in the ALMT time zone is Almaty in Kazakhstan, with about 1.977 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Astana, Shymkent, Karagandy, Taraz.

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

ALMT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +05 - basic short
  • +0500 - basic
  • +05:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0500 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Echo - Military abbreviation for ALMT
  • E - short form of 'Echo'
Time zones with the GMT +5 offset:
  • ALMT - Alma-Ata Time
  • AMST - Armenia Summer Time
  • AQTT - Aqtobe Time
  • AZST - Azerbaijan Summer Time
  • E - Echo Time Zone
  • MAWT - Mawson Time
  • MVT - Maldives Time
  • ORAT - Oral Time
  • PKT - Pakistan Standard Time
  • QYZT - Qyzylorda Time
  • TFT - French Southern and Antarctic Time
  • TJT - Tajikistan Time
  • TMT - Turkmenistan Time
  • UZT - Uzbekistan Time
  • YEKT - Yekaterinburg Time
  • HMT - Heard and McDonald Islands Time

Cocos Islands Time

Offset: CCT is 6 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Cocos Islands

Principal Cities: The largest city in the CCT time zone is West Island in the Cocos Islands, with about 120 people.

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

CCT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +0630 - basic
  • +06:30 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0630 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of six hours and thirty minutes to the east of the zero meridian.
Time zones with the GMT +6:30 offset:
  • CCT - Cocos Islands Time
  • MMT - Myanmar Time