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CT
Central Time
GMT -6
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
AWST/AWDT
Australian Western Standard Time
GMT +8
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
AWDT is not used on this date
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How the time difference changes

For most of the year, CT is 13 hours behind AWST. At other times of the year, CT is 14 hours behind AWST.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in CT correspond to 10:00 pm to 6:00 am (next day) in AWST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in CT correspond to 11:00 pm to 7:00 am (next day) in AWST.

Compare CT time with AWDT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Central Time is 14 hours behind Australian Western Standard Time
6:00 am06:00 in CT is 8:00 pm20:00 in AWST

CT to AWST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5:30pm-6:30pm in CT which corresponds to 7:30am-8:30am in AWST (next day)

6:00 am06:00 Central Time (CT). Offset UTC -6:00 hours
8:00 pm20:00 Australian Western Standard Time (AWST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours

6:00 am06:00 CT / 8:00 pm20:00 AWST

CTAWST
12am (midnight)2pm
1am3pm
2am4pm
3am5pm
4am6pm
5am7pm
6am8pm
7am9pm
8am10pm
9am11pm
10am12am (midnight)
11am1am
12pm (noon)2am
1pm3am
2pm4am
3pm5am
4pm6am
5pm7am
6pm8am
7pm9am
8pm10am
9pm11am
10pm12pm (noon)
11pm1pm
00:0014:00
01:0015:00
02:0016:00
03:0017:00
04:0018:00
05:0019:00
06:0020:00
07:0021:00
08:0022:00
09:0023:00
10:0000:00
11:0001:00
12:0002:00
13:0003:00
14:0004:00
15:0005:00
16:0006:00
17:0007:00
18:0008:00
19:0009:00
20:0010:00
21:0011:00
22:0012:00
23:0013:00

Central Time

Central Time (CT) is a general term used to describe the areas that observe either the Central Standard Time (CST) or Central Daylight Time (CDT) in the United States and Canada. CT is not static but switches between CDT and CST.

Territories observing the time zone are primarily in North and Central America. It runs through several Mexican and U.S. states, as well as several Canadian provinces and Central American countries.

Countries using this time zone: Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, United States.

Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST time zone is Mexico City in Mexico, with about 12.294 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Chicago, Houston, Iztapalapa, Ecatepec.

French: HNC - Heure Normale du Centre

Spanish: CT - Tiempo Central Estándar, CT - Zona Centro

CT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -06 - basic short
  • -0600 - basic
  • -06:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0600 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of six hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Sierra - Military abbreviation for CT
  • S - short form of 'Sierra'
Time zones with the GMT -6 offset:
  • CST - Central Standard Time
  • CT - Central Time
  • MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
  • EAST - Easter Island Standard Time
  • GALT - Galapagos Time
  • S - Sierra Time Zone

Australian Western Daylight Time

Offset: AWDT is 9 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Australia

AWDT Time Zone Geo Map
AWDT timezone map

AWDT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +09 - basic short
  • +0900 - basic
  • +09:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0900 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of nine hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • India - Military abbreviation for AWDT
  • I - short form of 'India'
Time zones with the GMT +9 offset:
  • AWDT - Australian Western Daylight Time
  • CHOST - Choibalsan Summer Time
  • I - India Time Zone
  • IRKST - Irkutsk Summer Time
  • JST - Japan Standard Time
  • KST - Korea Standard Time
  • PWT - Palau Time
  • TLT - East Timor Time
  • ULAST - Ulaanbaatar Summer Time
  • WIT - Eastern Indonesian Time
  • YAKT - Yakutsk Time