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Use this HAE Time Converter page to check current local time, UTC and GMT offset, daylight saving details, related time zones, and popular time converter links.

Heure Avancée de l'Est

Offset: HAE is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Canada

Principal Cities: The largest city in the HAE time zone is Toronto in Canada, with about 2.794 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Montréal, Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton.

Map of the areas on Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE)
HAE part of the year

Today all shaded areas are on HAE.

Daylight Saving: Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Eastern Standard Time (EST).

123456789101112Start: Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE) started on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March.

123456789101112End: Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE) ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 1, 2026, 1:00 am01:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November.

See Canada daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.

HAE representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -04 - basic short
  • -0400 - basic
  • -04:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0400 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (04) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of four hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Quebec - Military abbreviation for HAE
  • Q - short form of 'Quebec'
Time zones with the GMT -4 offset:
  • AST - Atlantic Standard Time
  • EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
  • AMT - Amazon Time
  • BOT - Bolivia Time
  • CDT - Cuba Daylight Time
  • CLT - Chile Standard Time
  • GYT - Guyana Time
  • HLV - Hora Legal de Venezuela
  • Q - Quebec Time Zone
  • VET - Venezuelan Standard Time