AWST

Australian Western Standard Time

GMT +8

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Use this AWST Converter page to check current local time, UTC and GMT offset, daylight saving details, related time zones, and popular time converter links.

Australian Western Standard Time

Offset: AWST is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Australia

Countries using this time zone: Australia

Principal Cities: The largest city in the AWST time zone is Perth in Australia, with about 1.897 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Rockingham, Mandurah, Bunbury, Armadale.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) do not change for daylight saving time, so AWST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.

AWST Time Zone Geo Map — AWST timezone map

AWST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+08 - basic short
+0800 - basic
+08:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eight hours to the east of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Hotel - Military abbreviation for AWST
H - short form of 'Hotel'

IANA/Olson: Reflects AWST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

Australia/Perth
Australia/West

Time zones with the GMT +8 offset:

ACT - ASEAN Common Time
AWST - Australian Western Standard Time
BNT - Brunei Darussalam Time
CAST - Casey Time
CHOT - Choibalsan Time
CST - China Standard Time
H - Hotel Time Zone
HKT - Hong Kong Time
HOVST - Hovd Summer Time
IRKT - Irkutsk Time
KRAST - Krasnoyarsk Summer Time
MYT - Malaysia Time
PHT - Philippine Time
SGT - Singapore Time
ULAT - Ulaanbaatar Time
WITA - Central Indonesian Time