HMT to EST Converter
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HMT and EST examples
These examples always use HMT (UTC+5) 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.
HMT is 10 hours ahead of EST.
EST uses UTC-5 during standard time. For Eastern Time that follows daylight saving time, use HMT to ET. For daylight-time examples, use HMT to EDT.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, HMT is 9 hours ahead of EDT. At other times of the year, HMT is 10 hours ahead of EST.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in HMT correspond to 12:00 am to 8:00 am in EDT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in HMT correspond to 11:00 pm (previous day) to 7:00 am in EST.
Compare HMT time with EST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Heard and McDonald Islands Time is 10 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time
5:00 pm17:00 in HMT is 7:00 am07:00 in EST
HMT to EST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5:30pm-6:30pm in HMT which corresponds to 7:30am-8:30am in EST
5:00 pm17:00 Heard and McDonald Islands Time (HMT). Offset UTC +5:00 hours
7:00 am07:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
5:00 pm17:00 HMT / 7:00 am07:00 EST
| HMT | EST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 2pm |
| 1am | 3pm |
| 2am | 4pm |
| 3am | 5pm |
| 4am | 6pm |
| 5am | 7pm |
| 6am | 8pm |
| 7am | 9pm |
| 8am | 10pm |
| 9am | 11pm |
| 10am | 12am (midnight) |
| 11am | 1am |
| 12pm (noon) | 2am |
| 1pm | 3am |
| 2pm | 4am |
| 3pm | 5am |
| 4pm | 6am |
| 5pm | 7am |
| 6pm | 8am |
| 7pm | 9am |
| 8pm | 10am |
| 9pm | 11am |
| 10pm | 12pm (noon) |
| 11pm | 1pm |
| 00:00 | 14:00 |
| 01:00 | 15:00 |
| 02:00 | 16:00 |
| 03:00 | 17:00 |
| 04:00 | 18:00 |
| 05:00 | 19:00 |
| 06:00 | 20:00 |
| 07:00 | 21:00 |
| 08:00 | 22:00 |
| 09:00 | 23:00 |
| 10:00 | 00:00 |
| 11:00 | 01:00 |
| 12:00 | 02:00 |
| 13:00 | 03:00 |
| 14:00 | 04:00 |
| 15:00 | 05:00 |
| 16:00 | 06:00 |
| 17:00 | 07:00 |
| 18:00 | 08:00 |
| 19:00 | 09:00 |
| 20:00 | 10:00 |
| 21:00 | 11:00 |
| 22:00 | 12:00 |
| 23:00 | 13:00 |
Heard and McDonald Islands Time
Offset: HMT is 5 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Indian
Daylight Saving: Clocks in Heard and McDonald Islands Time (HMT) do not change for daylight saving time, so HMT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.
HMT representations, usage and related time zones
- +05 - basic short
- +0500 - basic
- +05:00 - extended
- +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 east of the zero meridian.
- Echo - Military abbreviation for HMT
- E - short form of 'Echo'
- AMST - Armenia Summer Time
- AQTT - Aqtobe Time
- AZST - Azerbaijan Summer Time
- E - Echo Time Zone
- MAWT - Mawson Time
- MVT - Maldives Time
- ORAT - Oral Time
- PKT - Pakistan Standard Time
- TFT - French Southern and Antarctic Time
- TJT - Tajikistan Time
- TMT - Turkmenistan Time
- UZT - Uzbekistan Time
- YEKT - Yekaterinburg Time
- HMT - Heard and McDonald Islands Time
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
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).
Start: 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.
End: 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
- -05 - basic short
- -0500 - basic
- -05:00 - extended
- -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.
- Romeo - Military abbreviation for EST
- R - short form of 'Romeo'
- 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
- 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