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The United Kingdom is on summer time: BST (UTC+1) until Sun, Oct 25.

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12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 14, 2026 = 7:00 am07:00 EASST (UTC-5), Oct 14, 2026

GMT is 5 hours ahead of EASST.

GMT and EASST examples

These examples always use GMT (UTC+0) and EASST (UTC-5). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

GMT is 5 hours ahead of EASST.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, GMT is 5 hours ahead of EASST. From Apr 3 to Sep 4, 2027, GMT is 6 hours ahead of EAST.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in GMT correspond to 4:00 am to 12:00 pm in EASST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in GMT correspond to 3:00 am to 11:00 am in EAST.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in GMT correspond to 04:00 to 12:00 in EASST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in GMT correspond to 03:00 to 11:00 in EAST.

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

Time Difference

Greenwich Mean Time is 5 hours ahead of Easter Island Summer Time.
12:00 pm12:00 in GMT is 7:00 am07:00 in EASST

GMT to EASST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 2pm-5pm14:00-17:00 in GMT which corresponds to 9am-12pm09:00-12:00 in EASST

12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
7:00 am07:00 Easter Island Summer Time (EASST). Offset UTC -5:00 hours

12:00 pm12:00 GMT / 7:00 am07:00 EASST

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Greenwich Mean Time

Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo

Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Dakar, Kumasi.

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 the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.

Map of the areas on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
GMT all year GMT part of the year

Today the lighter areas are on UTC+1 (British Summer Time, Irish Standard Time).

GMT 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 the zero UTC/GMT offset.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'
IANA/Olson: Reflects GMT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Africa/Abidjan
  • Africa/Accra
  • Africa/Bamako
  • Africa/Banjul
  • Africa/Bissau
  • Africa/Conakry
  • Africa/Dakar
  • Africa/Freetown
  • Africa/Lome
  • Africa/Monrovia
  • Africa/Nouakchott
  • Africa/Ouagadougou
  • Africa/Sao_Tome
  • Africa/Timbuktu
  • America/Danmarkshavn
  • Atlantic/Reykjavik
  • Atlantic/St_Helena
  • Eire
  • Etc/GMT
  • Etc/GMT+0
  • Etc/GMT-0
  • Etc/GMT0
  • Etc/Greenwich
  • Europe/Belfast
  • Europe/Dublin
  • Europe/Guernsey
  • Europe/Isle_of_Man
  • Europe/Jersey
  • Europe/London
  • GB
  • GB-Eire
  • GMT
  • GMT+0
  • GMT-0
  • GMT0
  • Greenwich
  • Iceland
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 - Coordinated Universal Time
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone

Easter Island Summer Time

Offset: EASST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Chile

Principal Cities: The largest city in the EASST time zone is Hanga Roa in Chile, with about 7,322 people.

Map of the areas on Easter Island Summer Time (EASST)
EASST part of the year

Today all shaded areas are on EASST.

Daylight Saving: Easter Island Summer Time (EASST) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Easter Island Standard Time (EAST).

123456789101112Start: Easter Island Summer Time (EASST) started on Saturday, September 5, 2026 at 10:00 pm22:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Saturday, September 5, 2026, 11:00 pm23:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the first Saturday of September.

123456789101112End: Easter Island Summer Time (EASST) ends on Saturday, April 3, 2027 at 10:00 pm22:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Saturday, April 3, 2027, 9:00 pm21:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Saturday of April.

See upcoming clock changes worldwide.

EASST 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 EASST
  • R - short form of 'Romeo'
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