AST Caribbean to BST
Time Difference
Atlantic Standard Time is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
8:00 pm20:00 in AST is 12:00 am00:00 in GMT
AST to BST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-1pm in AST which corresponds to 1pm-6pm in BST
8:00 pm20:00 Atlantic Standard Time (AST). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
12:00 am00:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
8:00 pm20:00 AST / 12:00 am00:00 GMT
| AST | GMT |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 4am |
| 1am | 5am |
| 2am | 6am |
| 3am | 7am |
| 4am | 8am |
| 5am | 9am |
| 6am | 10am |
| 7am | 11am |
| 8am | 12pm (noon) |
| 9am | 1pm |
| 10am | 2pm |
| 11am | 3pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 4pm |
| 1pm | 5pm |
| 2pm | 6pm |
| 3pm | 7pm |
| 4pm | 8pm |
| 5pm | 9pm |
| 6pm | 10pm |
| 7pm | 11pm |
| 8pm | 12am (midnight) |
| 9pm | 1am |
| 10pm | 2am |
| 11pm | 3am |
| 0:00 | 4:00 |
| 1:00 | 5:00 |
| 2:00 | 6:00 |
| 3:00 | 7:00 |
| 4:00 | 8:00 |
| 5:00 | 9:00 |
| 6:00 | 10:00 |
| 7:00 | 11:00 |
| 8:00 | 12:00 |
| 9:00 | 13:00 |
| 10:00 | 14:00 |
| 11:00 | 15:00 |
| 12:00 | 16:00 |
| 13:00 | 17:00 |
| 14:00 | 18:00 |
| 15:00 | 19:00 |
| 16:00 | 20:00 |
| 17:00 | 21:00 |
| 18:00 | 22:00 |
| 19:00 | 23:00 |
| 20:00 | 0:00 |
| 21:00 | 1:00 |
| 22:00 | 2:00 |
| 23:00 | 3:00 |
Atlantic Standard Time
Offset: AST is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Caribbean
Countries: It is used in following countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Anguilla, Aruba, Barbados, St Barthelemy, Bermuda, Caribbean NL, Canada, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Greenland, Guadeloupe, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Martin (French), Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St Maarten (Dutch), Trinidad & Tobago, St Vincent, Virgin Islands (UK), Virgin Islands (US)
Principal Cities: The largest city in the AST timezone is Santo Domingo from Dominican Republic with population about 2.202 million people. Other major cities in the area are Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo Oeste, San Juan, Halifax
Daylight Saving: Atlantic Standard Time (AST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore AST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, Atlantic Standard Time remains the same
AST representations, usage and related time zones
- -04 - basic short
- -0400 - basic
- -04:00 - extended
- -0400 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (04) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates four hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Quebec - Military abbreviation for AST
- Q - short form of 'Quebec'
- America/Anguilla
- America/Antigua
- America/Aruba
- America/Barbados
- America/Blanc-Sablon
- America/Curacao
- America/Dominica
- America/Glace_Bay
- America/Goose_Bay
- America/Grenada
- America/Guadeloupe
- America/Halifax
- America/Kralendijk
- America/Lower_Princes
- America/Marigot
- America/Martinique
- America/Moncton
- America/Montserrat
- America/Port_of_Spain
- America/Puerto_Rico
- America/Santo_Domingo
- America/St_Barthelemy
- America/St_Kitts
- America/St_Lucia
- America/St_Thomas
- America/St_Vincent
- America/Thule
- America/Tortola
- America/Virgin
- Atlantic/Bermuda
- Canada/Atlantic
- Atlantic Standard Time - UTC -4
- Arabia Standard Time - UTC +3
- Argentina Standard Time - UTC -3
- Arabian Standard Time - UTC +3
- Apia Standard Time - UTC +13
- Azores Summer Time - UTC +0
- AST - Atlantic Standard Time
- EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
- AMT - Amazon Time
- BOT - Bolivia Time
- CDT - Cuba Daylight Time
- CLT - Chile Standard Time
- FKT - Falkland Island Time
- GYT - Guyana Time
- HLV - Hora Legal de Venezuela
- PYT - Paraguay Time
- Q - Quebec Time Zone
- VET - Venezuelan Standard Time
British Summer Time
Offset: BST is 1 hour ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: Britain (UK), Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey
Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in the area are Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Saint Helier
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 for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.
BST representations, usage and related time zones
- +01 - basic short
- +0100 - basic
- +01:00 - extended
- +0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates one hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Alpha - Military abbreviation for BST
- A - short form of 'Alpha'
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- British Summer Time - UTC +1
- Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
- Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
- Brasilia Standard Time - UTC -3
- 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