Cocos Islands
CIT
Z
Zulu Time Zone
GMT +0

Time Difference

CIT (Cocos Islands Time) is 6 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Zulu Time Zone
8:00 am08:00 in West Island, Cocos Islands is 1:30 am01:30 in Z

West Island to Z call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 2:30pm-6pm in West Island which corresponds to 8am-11:30am in Z

8:00 am08:00 CIT (Cocos Islands Time) (West Island, Cocos Islands). Offset UTC +6:30 hours
1:30 am01:30 Zulu Time Zone (Z). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

8:00 am08:00 West Island, Cocos Islands / 1:30 am01:30 Z

West Island, Cocos Islands Z
12am (midnight) 5:30 pm
1am 6:30 pm
2am 7:30 pm
3am 8:30 pm
4am 9:30 pm
5am 10:30 pm
6am 11:30 pm
7am 12:30 am
8am 1:30 am
9am 2:30 am
10am 3:30 am
11am 4:30 am
12pm (noon) 5:30 am
1pm 6:30 am
2pm 7:30 am
3pm 8:30 am
4pm 9:30 am
5pm 10:30 am
6pm 11:30 am
7pm 12:30 pm
8pm 1:30 pm
9pm 2:30 pm
10pm 3:30 pm
11pm 4:30 pm
0:00 17:30
1:00 18:30
2:00 19:30
3:00 20:30
4:00 21:30
5:00 22:30
6:00 23:30
7:00 0:30
8:00 1:30
9:00 2:30
10:00 3:30
11:00 4:30
12:00 5:30
13:00 6:30
14:00 7:30
15:00 8:30
16:00 9:30
17:00 10:30
18:00 11:30
19:00 12:30
20:00 13:30
21:00 14:30
22:00 15:30
23:00 16:30

West Island Information

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Name
CIT - Cocos Islands Time
CCT - Cocos Islands Time
UTC / GMT Offset
+6:30 hours during Cocos Islands Time, currently in use.
+6:30 hours during Cocos Islands Time.
Daylight Saving Time Change
0:00 hours - DST is NOT in use
Daylight Saving Time Starts
Also called Spring Forward or Summer Time.
Daylight Saving Time Ends
Also called Fall Back or switch to Winter Time.

West Island Facts

Country
Cocos Islands
Alternative Names
weseuteu seom, 웨스트 섬
Population
120
Currency
Dollar (AUD)
Geographic Coordinates
12° 09' S Latitude / 96° 49' E Longitude
International Dialing Code
+61

Zulu Time Zone

Offset: Z is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Military

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

Z representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
  • +00 - basic short
  • +0000 - basic
  • +00:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Zulu - Military abbreviation for Z
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'
Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:
  • EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
  • GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
  • WET - Western European Time
  • AZOST - Azores Summer Time
  • UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone