Qidian, China Converter

CST (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

Qidian, China 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

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

• Central Standard Time - UTC -6
• China Standard Time - UTC +8
• Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5

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
• +08 -