GMT to Chicago, IL, USA to Toronto, Canada
Time Difference
Greenwich Mean Time is 5 hours ahead of CDT (Central Daylight Time) and 4 hours ahead of EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
5:00 am05:00 in GMT is 12:00 am00:00 in Chicago, IL, USA and is 1:00 am01:00 in Toronto, Canada
GMT to Chicago call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 1pm-6pm in GMT which corresponds to 8am-1pm in Chicago
GMT to Toronto call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 12pm-6pm in GMT which corresponds to 8am-2pm in Toronto
5:00 am05:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
12:00 am00:00 CDT (Central Daylight Time) (Chicago, IL, USA). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
1:00 am01:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) (Toronto, Canada). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
5:00 am05:00 GMT / 12:00 am00:00 Chicago, IL, USA / 1:00 am01:00 Toronto, Canada
| GMT | Chicago, IL, USA | Toronto, Canada |
|---|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 7pm | 8pm |
| 1am | 8pm | 9pm |
| 2am | 9pm | 10pm |
| 3am | 10pm | 11pm |
| 4am | 11pm | 12am (midnight) |
| 5am | 12am (midnight) | 1am |
| 6am | 1am | 2am |
| 7am | 2am | 3am |
| 8am | 3am | 4am |
| 9am | 4am | 5am |
| 10am | 5am | 6am |
| 11am | 6am | 7am |
| 12pm (noon) | 7am | 8am |
| 1pm | 8am | 9am |
| 2pm | 9am | 10am |
| 3pm | 10am | 11am |
| 4pm | 11am | 12pm (noon) |
| 5pm | 12pm (noon) | 1pm |
| 6pm | 1pm | 2pm |
| 7pm | 2pm | 3pm |
| 8pm | 3pm | 4pm |
| 9pm | 4pm | 5pm |
| 10pm | 5pm | 6pm |
| 11pm | 6pm | 7pm |
| 0:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 |
| 1:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 |
| 2:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 |
| 3:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 |
| 4:00 | 23:00 | 0:00 |
| 5:00 | 0:00 | 1:00 |
| 6:00 | 1:00 | 2:00 |
| 7:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 |
| 8:00 | 3:00 | 4:00 |
| 9:00 | 4:00 | 5:00 |
| 10:00 | 5:00 | 6:00 |
| 11:00 | 6:00 | 7:00 |
| 12:00 | 7:00 | 8:00 |
| 13:00 | 8:00 | 9:00 |
| 14:00 | 9:00 | 10:00 |
| 15:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 |
| 16:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 |
| 17:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 |
| 18:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 |
| 19:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| 20:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 |
| 21:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 |
| 22:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 |
| 23:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 |
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: 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 timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in the area are Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra
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.
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +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.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- 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
- Greenwich Mean Time - UTC +0
- GMT+03:00 - UTC +3
- GMT - UTC +1
- GMT+06:00 - UTC +6
- GMT-01:00 - UTC -1
- GMT+11:00 - UTC +11
- 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
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EST - Eastern Standard Time
-5:00 hours during Eastern Standard Time.
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2:00 am local time. DST starts annually the on second Sunday of March. Clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Also called Spring Forward or Summer Time.
Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:00 am local time. DST ends annually the on first Sunday of November. Clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1:00 am local standard time instead. Also called Fall Back or switch to Winter Time.