CDT to CST Asia
Time Difference
Central Daylight Time is 13 hours behind China Standard Time
7:00 am07:00 in CDT is 8:00 pm20:00 in CST
CDT to CST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 6:30am-8:30am in CDT which corresponds to 7:30pm-9:30pm in CST
7:00 am07:00 Central Daylight Time (CDT). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
8:00 pm20:00 China Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
7:00 am07:00 CDT / 8:00 pm20:00 CST
CDT | CST |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 1pm |
1am | 2pm |
2am | 3pm |
3am | 4pm |
4am | 5pm |
5am | 6pm |
6am | 7pm |
7am | 8pm |
8am | 9pm |
9am | 10pm |
10am | 11pm |
11am | 12am (midnight) |
12pm (noon) | 1am |
1pm | 2am |
2pm | 3am |
3pm | 4am |
4pm | 5am |
5pm | 6am |
6pm | 7am |
7pm | 8am |
8pm | 9am |
9pm | 10am |
10pm | 11am |
11pm | 12pm (noon) |
0:00 | 13:00 |
1:00 | 14:00 |
2:00 | 15:00 |
3:00 | 16:00 |
4:00 | 17:00 |
5:00 | 18:00 |
6:00 | 19:00 |
7:00 | 20:00 |
8:00 | 21:00 |
9:00 | 22:00 |
10:00 | 23:00 |
11:00 | 0:00 |
12:00 | 1:00 |
13:00 | 2:00 |
14:00 | 3:00 |
15:00 | 4:00 |
16:00 | 5:00 |
17:00 | 6:00 |
18:00 | 7:00 |
19:00 | 8:00 |
20:00 | 9:00 |
21:00 | 10:00 |
22:00 | 11:00 |
23:00 | 12:00 |
Central Daylight Time
Offset: CDT is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Canada, Cuba, Mexico, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CDT timezone is Chicago from USA with population about 2.696 million people. Other major cities in the area are Havana, Houston, Ciudad Juarez, San Antonio
French: HAC - Heure Avancée du Centre
Spanish: CT - Zona Centro

Daylight Saving: Central Daylight Time (CDT) is a daylight saving/summer timezone, however during winter some places switch clocks for one hour back and observe Central Standard Time (CST).
Start: Central Daylight Time (CDT) started 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. Daylight saving starts annually the on second Sunday of March
End: Central Daylight Time (CDT) ends 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 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually the on first Sunday of November
CDT representations, usage and related time zones
- -05 - basic short
- -0500 - basic
- -05:00 - extended
- -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates five hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Romeo - Military abbreviation for CDT
- R - short form of 'Romeo'
- America/Chicago
- America/Indiana/Knox
- America/Indiana/Tell_City
- America/Knox_IN
- America/Matamoros
- America/Menominee
- America/North_Dakota/Beulah
- America/North_Dakota/Center
- America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
- America/Ojinaga
- America/Rainy_River
- America/Rankin_Inlet
- America/Resolute
- America/Winnipeg
- CST6CDT
- Canada/Central
- US/Central
- US/Indiana-Starke
- Central Daylight Time - UTC -5
- Cuba Daylight Time - UTC -4
- CDT - Central Daylight Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- ET - Eastern Time
- COT - Colombia Time
- CST - Cuba Standard Time
- EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
- ECT - Ecuador Time
- PET - Peru Time
- R - Romeo Time Zone
China Standard Time
Offset: CST is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: China, Macau, Taiwan
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Shanghai from China with population about 14.609 million people. Other major cities in the area are Zhumadian, Taipei, Beijing, Nanchong
Daylight Saving: China Standard Time (CST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CST 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, China Standard Time remains the same

CST 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 east of the zero meridian.
- Hotel - Military abbreviation for CST
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
- Asia/Chongqing
- Asia/Chungking
- Asia/Harbin
- Asia/Macao
- Asia/Macau
- Asia/Shanghai
- Asia/Taipei
- PRC
- ROC
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- Colombia Standard Time - UTC -5
- 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