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ET
Eastern Time
GMT -5
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6pm
9pm
HAT
Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve
GMT -2:30
12am
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9pm
HAT is not used on this date
This converter keeps HAT at GMT -2:30. St Johns uses NST (GMT -3:30) on this date. Open the NST converter, or choose St Johns, Conception Bay South, or Mount Pearl for city-specific time.

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How the time difference changes

For most of the year, ET is 1 hour and 30 minutes behind HAT. At other times of the year, ET is 2 hours and 30 minutes behind HAT.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in ET correspond to 10:30 am to 6:30 pm in HAT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in ET correspond to 11:30 am to 7:30 pm in HAT.

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

Time Difference

Eastern Time is 2 hours and 30 minutes behind Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve
7:00 am07:00 in ET is 9:30 am09:30 in HAT

ET to HAT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-2:30pm in ET which corresponds to 11:30am-5pm in HAT

7:00 am07:00 Eastern Time (ET). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
9:30 am09:30 Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve (HAT). Offset UTC -2:30 hours

7:00 am07:00 ET / 9:30 am09:30 HAT

ETHAT
12am (midnight)2:30 am
1am3:30 am
2am4:30 am
3am5:30 am
4am6:30 am
5am7:30 am
6am8:30 am
7am9:30 am
8am10:30 am
9am11:30 am
10am12:30 pm
11am1:30 pm
12pm (noon)2:30 pm
1pm3:30 pm
2pm4:30 pm
3pm5:30 pm
4pm6:30 pm
5pm7:30 pm
6pm8:30 pm
7pm9:30 pm
8pm10:30 pm
9pm11:30 pm
10pm12:30 am
11pm1:30 am
00:0002:30
01:0003:30
02:0004:30
03:0005:30
04:0006:30
05:0007:30
06:0008:30
07:0009:30
08:0010:30
09:0011:30
10:0012:30
11:0013:30
12:0014:30
13:0015:30
14:0016:30
15:0017:30
16:0018:30
17:0019:30
18:0020:30
19:0021:30
20:0022:30
21:0023:30
22:0000:30
23:0001:30

Eastern Time

Eastern Time (ET) is a general term used to describe the areas that observe either the Eastern Standard Time (EST) or Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) in the United States and Canada. ET is not static but switches between EDT and EST.

ET is also used somewhat as a de facto official time for all of the United States because it encompasses 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States including the capital city Washington D.C., the most populous city New York and half of the country’s population.

In the United States nationally televised programs, evening newscasts, talent and awards shows, and any other nationally televised event that airs live on American television during prime time and on the weekends are broadcast live in the Eastern Time Zone. Major professional sports leagues MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL also provide their game times in Eastern Time, even if teams are from outside of Eastern Time.

Countries using this time zone: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Panama, Turks & Caicos Is, United States.

Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST time zone is New York City in the United States, with about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens.

French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est

Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste

ET representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -05 - basic short
  • -0500 - basic
  • -05:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Romeo - Military abbreviation for ET
  • R - short form of 'Romeo'
ET Abbreviation: Several time zones share ET abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Eastern Time - UTC -5
  • Tiempo del Este - UTC -5
Time zones with the GMT -5 offset:
  • 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

Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve

Offset: HAT is 2 hours and 30 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in America

Countries using this time zone: Canada

Principal Cities: The largest city in the HAT time zone is St Johns in Canada, with about 110,525 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Conception Bay South, Mount Pearl, Corner Brook.

Daylight Saving: Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve (HAT) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Newfoundland Standard Time (NST).

Daylight saving time clock moves forward for one hour from 2am to 3amEnd: Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve (HAT) ended on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November

Daylight saving time clock moves back for one hour from 2am to 1amStart: Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve (HAT) starts on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March

HAT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -0230 - basic
  • -02:30 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0230 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of two hours and thirty minutes to the west of the zero meridian.