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HAT to EST Converter

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HAT
Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve
GMT -2:30
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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.
EST
Eastern Standard Time
GMT -5
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HAT and EST examples

These examples always use HAT (UTC-2:30) and EST (UTC-5). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

HAT is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of EST.

EST uses UTC-5 during standard time. For Eastern Time that follows daylight saving time, use HAT to ET. For daylight-time examples, use HAT to EDT.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, HAT is 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of EDT. At other times of the year, HAT is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of EST.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in HAT correspond to 7:30 am to 3:30 pm in EDT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in HAT correspond to 6:30 am to 2:30 pm in EST.

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

Time Difference

Heure Avancée de Terre-Neuve is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Eastern Standard Time
9:30 am09:30 in HAT is 7:00 am07:00 in EST

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

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

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

HATEST
12am (midnight)9:30 pm
1am10:30 pm
2am11:30 pm
3am12:30 am
4am1:30 am
5am2:30 am
6am3:30 am
7am4:30 am
8am5:30 am
9am6:30 am
10am7:30 am
11am8:30 am
12pm (noon)9:30 am
1pm10:30 am
2pm11:30 am
3pm12:30 pm
4pm1:30 pm
5pm2:30 pm
6pm3:30 pm
7pm4:30 pm
8pm5:30 pm
9pm6:30 pm
10pm7:30 pm
11pm8:30 pm
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01:0022:30
02:0023:30
03:0000:30
04:0001:30
05:0002:30
06:0003:30
07:0004:30
08:0005:30
09:0006:30
10:0007:30
11:0008:30
12:0009:30
13:0010:30
14:0011:30
15:0012:30
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18:0015:30
19:0016:30
20:0017:30
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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.

Eastern Standard Time

Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

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 8.804 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Toronto, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens, Montreal.

French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est

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

EST Time Zone Geo Map
EST timezone map

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Daylight saving time clock moves back for one hour from 2am to 1amStart: Eastern Standard Time (EST) started 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. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.

Daylight saving time clock moves forward for one hour from 2am to 3amEnd: Eastern Standard Time (EST) ends 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 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.

EST 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 EST
  • R - short form of 'Romeo'
IANA/Olson: Reflects EST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • America/Atikokan
  • America/Cancun
  • America/Cayman
  • America/Coral_Harbour
  • America/Detroit
  • America/Fort_Wayne
  • America/Grand_Turk
  • America/Indiana/Indianapolis
  • America/Indiana/Marengo
  • America/Indiana/Petersburg
  • America/Indiana/Vevay
  • America/Indiana/Vincennes
  • America/Indiana/Winamac
  • America/Indianapolis
  • America/Iqaluit
  • America/Jamaica
  • America/Kentucky/Louisville
  • America/Kentucky/Monticello
  • America/Louisville
  • America/Montreal
  • America/Nassau
  • America/New_York
  • America/Nipigon
  • America/Panama
  • America/Pangnirtung
  • America/Port-au-Prince
  • America/Thunder_Bay
  • America/Toronto
  • Canada/Eastern
  • EST
  • EST5EDT
  • Jamaica
  • US/East-Indiana
  • US/Eastern
  • US/Michigan
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
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