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

Brasília time

Offset: BRT is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in South America

Countries: It is used in following countries: Brazil

Principal Cities: The largest city in the BRT timezone is Fortaleza from Brazil with population about 2.4 million people. Other major cities in the area are Sao Luis, Natal, Teresina, Joao Pessoa

Daylight Saving: Brasília time (BRT) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore BRT 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, Brasília time remains the same

BRT Time Zone Geo Map
BRT timezone map

BRT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -03 - basic short
  • -0300 - basic
  • -03:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0300 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates three hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Papa - Military abbreviation for BRT
  • P - short form of 'Papa'
Time zones with the GMT -3 offset:
  • ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
  • PMT - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • AMST - Amazon Summer Time
  • ART - Argentina Time
  • BRT - Brasília time
  • CLST - Chile Summer Time
  • FKST - Falkland Islands Summer Time
  • GFT - French Guiana Time
  • P - Papa Time Zone
  • PYST - Paraguay Summer Time
  • SRT - Suriname Time
  • UYT - Uruguay Time