AST to ECT Converter
Time Difference
Atlantic Daylight Time is 2 hours ahead of Ecuador Time
2:30 pm14:30 in ADT is 12:30 pm12:30 in ECT
AST to ECT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-6pm in AST which corresponds to 8am-5pm in ECT
2:30 pm14:30 Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT). Offset UTC -3:00 hours
12:30 pm12:30 Ecuador Time (ECT). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
2:30 pm14:30 ADT / 12:30 pm12:30 ECT
ADT | ECT |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 10pm |
1am | 11pm |
2am | 12am (midnight) |
3am | 1am |
4am | 2am |
5am | 3am |
6am | 4am |
7am | 5am |
8am | 6am |
9am | 7am |
10am | 8am |
11am | 9am |
12pm (noon) | 10am |
1pm | 11am |
2pm | 12pm (noon) |
3pm | 1pm |
4pm | 2pm |
5pm | 3pm |
6pm | 4pm |
7pm | 5pm |
8pm | 6pm |
9pm | 7pm |
10pm | 8pm |
11pm | 9pm |
0:00 | 22:00 |
1:00 | 23:00 |
2:00 | 0:00 |
3:00 | 1:00 |
4:00 | 2:00 |
5:00 | 3:00 |
6:00 | 4:00 |
7:00 | 5:00 |
8:00 | 6:00 |
9:00 | 7:00 |
10:00 | 8:00 |
11:00 | 9:00 |
12:00 | 10:00 |
13:00 | 11:00 |
14:00 | 12:00 |
15:00 | 13:00 |
16:00 | 14:00 |
17:00 | 15:00 |
18:00 | 16:00 |
19:00 | 17:00 |
20:00 | 18:00 |
21:00 | 19:00 |
22:00 | 20:00 |
23:00 | 21:00 |
Atlantic Standard Time
Offset: AST is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
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: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places adjust time for one hour forward for daylight saving and observe Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT).
End: AST ended and clocks were set one hour forward on Sunday, 14 March 2021, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.
Start: AST starts and clocks are set one hour back on Sunday, 07 November 2021, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.
French: HNA - Heure Normale de l'Atlantique
Spanish: AST - Tiempo Estándar del Atlántico

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
- 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
- PYT - Paraguay Time
- Q - Quebec Time Zone
- VET - Venezuelan Standard Time
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