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PT
Pacific Time
GMT -8
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
ACST
Australian Central Standard Time
GMT +9:30
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
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This converter keeps ACST at GMT +9:30. Adelaide uses ACDT (GMT +10:30) on this date. Open the ACDT converter, or choose Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, or Mount Gambier for city-specific time.

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How the time difference changes

For most of the year, PT is 16 hours and 30 minutes behind ACST. At other times of the year, PT is 17 hours and 30 minutes behind ACST.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in PT correspond to 1:30 am (next day) to 9:30 am (next day) in ACST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in PT correspond to 2:30 am (next day) to 10:30 am (next day) in ACST.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Time is 17 hours and 30 minutes behind Australian Central Standard Time
4:00 am04:00 in PT is 9:30 pm21:30 in ACST

PT to ACST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 3:30pm-5pm in PT which corresponds to 9am-10:30am in ACST (next day)

4:00 am04:00 Pacific Time (PT). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
9:30 pm21:30 Australian Central Standard Time (ACST). Offset UTC +9:30 hours

4:00 am04:00 PT / 9:30 pm21:30 ACST

PTACST
12am (midnight)5:30 pm
1am6:30 pm
2am7:30 pm
3am8:30 pm
4am9:30 pm
5am10:30 pm
6am11:30 pm
7am12:30 am
8am1:30 am
9am2:30 am
10am3:30 am
11am4:30 am
12pm (noon)5:30 am
1pm6:30 am
2pm7:30 am
3pm8:30 am
4pm9:30 am
5pm10:30 am
6pm11:30 am
7pm12:30 pm
8pm1:30 pm
9pm2:30 pm
10pm3:30 pm
11pm4:30 pm
00:0017:30
01:0018:30
02:0019:30
03:0020:30
04:0021:30
05:0022:30
06:0023:30
07:0000:30
08:0001:30
09:0002:30
10:0003:30
11:0004:30
12:0005:30
13:0006:30
14:0007:30
15:0008:30
16:0009:30
17:0010:30
18:0011:30
19:0012:30
20:0013:30
21:0014:30
22:0015:30
23:0016:30

Pacific Time

Pacific Time (PT) is a general term used to describe the areas that observe either the Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) in the United States and Canada. PT also called Pacific Coast Time. PT is not static but switches between PDT and PST.

Territories observing the Pacific Time Zone are primarily in North America. It runs through the western part of Canada, the United States and the Northwestern part of Mexico.

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 3.793 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Vancouver, Tijuana, San Diego, San Jose.

French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique

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

PT 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 PT
  • U - short form of 'Uniform'
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

Australian Central Standard Time

Offset: ACST is 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Australia

Countries using this time zone: Australia

Principal Cities: The largest city in the ACST time zone is Darwin in Australia, with about 139,902 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Palmerston, Alice Springs.

ACST Time Zone Geo Map
ACST 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 Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT).

Daylight saving time clock moves forward for one hour from 2am to 3amEnd: Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) ended on Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, October 5, 2025, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the first Sunday of October.

Daylight saving time clock moves back for one hour from 3am to 2amStart: Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) starts on Sunday, April 5, 2026 at 3:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, April 5, 2026, 2:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of April.

ACST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +0930 - basic
  • +09:30 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0930 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of nine hours and thirty minutes to the east of the zero meridian.
IANA/Olson: Reflects ACST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Australia/Adelaide
  • Australia/Broken_Hill
  • Australia/Darwin
  • Australia/North
  • Australia/South
  • Australia/Yancowinna