AST to UTC Converter
Time Difference
Atlantic Daylight Time is 3 hours behind Universal Time Coordinated
5:30 am05:30 in ADT is 8:30 am08:30 in UTC
AST to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-2pm in AST which corresponds to 12pm-6pm in UTC
5:30 am05:30 Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT). Offset UTC -3:00 hours
8:30 am08:30 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
5:30 am05:30 ADT / 8:30 am08:30 UTC
ADT | UTC |
---|---|
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 | 12am (midnight) |
10pm | 1am |
11pm | 2am |
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 | 0:00 |
22:00 | 1:00 |
23:00 | 2:00 |
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
French: HNA - Heure Normale de l'Atlantique
Spanish: AST - Tiempo Estándar del Atlántico

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT).
End: Atlantic Standard Time (AST) has ended on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on second Sunday of March.
Start: Atlantic Standard Time (AST) starts on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.
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
- Arabian Standard Time - UTC +3
- Argentina Standard Time - UTC -3
- Azores Standard Time - UTC -1
- Apia Standard Time - UTC +13
- 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
Universal Time Coordinated
Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.
UTC representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Etc/UCT
- Etc/UTC
- Etc/Universal
- Etc/Zulu
- UCT
- UTC
- Universal
- Zulu
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone