CAT to PST Converter

Time Difference

Central Africa Time is 9 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time
So 12:56 AM00:56 in CAT is 3:56 PM15:56 in PDT

12:56 AM00:56 Central Africa Time (CAT). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
3:56 PM15:56 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours

12:56 AM00:56 CAT / 3:56 PM15:56 PDT

Central Africa Time

Offset: CAT is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa

Countries: It is used in following countries: Burundi, Botswana, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Principal Cities: The largest city in the CAT timezone is Khartoum from Sudan with population about 1.975 million people. Other major cities in the area are Harare, Lubumbashi, Lusaka, Omdurman

Daylight Saving: Central Africa Time (CAT) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CAT 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, Central Africa Time remains the same

CAT representations, usage and related time zones

• +02 - basic short
• +0200 - basic
• +02:00 - extended

• +0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates two hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.

• Bravo - Military abbreviation for CAT
• B - short form of 'Bravo'

• Africa/Blantyre
• Africa/Bujumbura
• Africa/Gaborone
• Africa/Harare
• Africa/Khartoum
• Africa/Kigali
• Africa/Lubumbashi
• Africa/Lusaka
• Africa/Maputo
• Africa/Windhoek

Time zones with the GMT +2:00 h offset:

• CEST - Central European Summer Time
• EET - Eastern European Time
• MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
• B - Bravo Time Zone
• CAT - Central Africa Time
• IST - Israel Standard Time
• SAST - South Africa Standard Time
• WAST - West Africa Summer Time

Pacific Standard Time

Offset: PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

Countries: It is used in following countries: Canada, Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PST timezone is Los Angeles from USA with population about 3.793 million people. Other major cities in the area are Vancouver, Tijuana, San Diego, San Jose

Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places adjust time for one hour forward for daylight saving and observe Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

End: PST ends annually on the same date and time. and clocks were set one hour forward on Sunday, March 10, 2019, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.

Start: PST starts annually on the same date and time. and clocks are set one hour back on Sunday, November 3, 2019, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.

French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique

Spanish: PT - Tiempo del Pacífico, PT - Zona Noroeste

PST representations, usage and related time zones

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

• -0800 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.

• Uniform - Military abbreviation for PST
• U - short form of 'Uniform'

• America/Dawson
• America/Ensenada
• America/Los_Angeles
• America/Santa_Isabel
• America/Tijuana
• America/Vancouver
• America/Whitehorse
• Canada/Pacific
• Canada/Yukon
• Mexico/BajaNorte
• PST8PDT
• US/Pacific
• US/Pacific-New

PST Abbreviation: Several time zones share PST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones

• Pacific Standard Time - UTC -8:00 h
• Pitcairn Standard Time - UTC -8:00 h

Time zones with the GMT -8:00 h offset:

• AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
• PST - Pacific Standard Time
• PT - Pacific Time
• YDT - Yukon Daylight Time
• PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
• U - Uniform Time Zone