PST to UTC Converter

Time Difference

Pacific Standard Time is 8 hours behind of Universal Time Coordinated
So 4:22 PM16:22 in PST is 12:22 AM00:22 in UTC

4:22 PM16:22 Pacific Standard Time (PST). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
12:22 AM00:22 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

4:22 PM16:22 PST / 12:22 AM00:22 UTC

Pacific Standard Time

Offset: PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

Countries: It is used in following countries: Canada, Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PST timezone is Los Angeles from USA with population about 3.793 million people. Other major cities in the area are Vancouver, Tijuana, San Diego, San Jose

Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Start: PST starts annually the First Sunday of November at 2:00 AM local time and clocks were set one hour back on Sunday, November 4, 2018, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.

End: PST ends annually the Second Sunday of March at 2:00 AM local time and clocks are set one hour forward on Sunday, March 10, 2019, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.

French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique

Spanish: PT - Tiempo del Pacífico, PT - Zona Noroeste

PST representations, usage and related time zones

• -08 - basic short
• -0800 - basic
• -08:00 - extended

• -0800 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.

• Uniform - Military abbreviation for PST
• U - short form of 'Uniform'

• America/Dawson
• America/Ensenada
• America/Los_Angeles
• America/Santa_Isabel
• America/Tijuana
• America/Vancouver
• America/Whitehorse
• Canada/Pacific
• Canada/Yukon
• Mexico/BajaNorte
• PST8PDT
• Pacific/Pitcairn
• US/Pacific
• US/Pacific-New

PST Abbreviation: Several time zones share PST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones

• Pacific Standard Time - UTC -8:00 h
• Pitcairn Standard Time - UTC -8:00 h

Time zones with the GMT -8:00 h offset:

• AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
• PST - Pacific Standard Time
• PT - Pacific Time
• YDT - Yukon Daylight Time
• PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
• U - Uniform Time Zone

Universal Time Coordinated

Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.

UTC 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 UTC
• Z - short form of 'Zulu'

• Antarctica/Troll
• UTC

Time zones with the GMT 0:00 h offset:

• 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