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Pacific Time is on daylight saving time: PDT (UTC−7) until Sun, Nov 1.
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5:00 am05:00 PDT (UTC-7), Oct 15, 2026 = 12:00 am00:00 Y (UTC-12), Oct 15, 2026

PDT is 5 hours ahead of Y.

PST (US winter time, UTC-8) and Y examples

These examples always use PST (UTC-8) and Y (UTC-12). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

PST is 4 hours ahead of Y.

PST is US Pacific winter time (early November to mid-March). The rest of the year Los Angeles uses PDT (UTC-7), one hour later. For Pacific Time that follows daylight saving time, use PT to Y. For daylight-time examples, use PDT to Y.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, PDT is 5 hours ahead of Y. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PST is 4 hours ahead of Y.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PDT correspond to 4:00 am to 1:00 pm in Y. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PST correspond to 5:00 am to 2:00 pm in Y.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PDT correspond to 04:00 to 13:00 in Y. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PST correspond to 05:00 to 14:00 in Y.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Daylight Time is 5 hours ahead of Yankee Time Zone.
5:00 am05:00 in PDT is 12:00 am00:00 in Y

PDT to Y call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 2pm-6pm14:00-18:00 in PDT which corresponds to 9am-1pm09:00-13:00 in Y

5:00 am05:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
12:00 am00:00 Yankee Time Zone (Y). Offset UTC -12:00 hours

5:00 am05:00 PDT / 12:00 am00:00 Y

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Pacific Standard Time

Offset: PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Canada, Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PST time zone is Los Angeles in the United States, with about 3.821 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Tijuana, San Diego, Mexicali, San Jose.

French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique

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

Map of the areas on Pacific Standard Time (PST)
PST part of the year

Today the shaded areas are on UTC−7 (PDT).

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

123456789101112End: Pacific Standard Time (PST) ended 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 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.

123456789101112Start: Pacific Standard Time (PST) starts 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. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.

See upcoming clock changes worldwide.

PST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -08 - basic short
  • -0800 - basic
  • -08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0800 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eight hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Uniform - Military abbreviation for PST
  • U - short form of 'Uniform'
IANA/Olson: Reflects PST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • America/Ensenada
  • America/Los_Angeles
  • America/Santa_Isabel
  • America/Tijuana
  • America/Vancouver
  • Canada/Pacific
  • Mexico/BajaNorte
  • PST8PDT
  • US/Pacific
PST Abbreviation: Several time zones share PST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Pacific Standard Time - UTC -8
  • Pitcairn Standard Time - UTC -8
Time zones with the GMT -8 offset:
  • AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
  • PST - Pacific Standard Time
  • PT - Pacific Time
  • PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
  • U - Uniform Time Zone

Yankee Time Zone

Offset: Y is 12 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Yankee Time Zone (Y) do not change for daylight saving time, so Y stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

Y representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -12 - basic short
  • -1200 - basic
  • -12:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -1200 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (12) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of twelve hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Yankee - Military abbreviation for Y
  • Y - short form of 'Yankee'