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PT
Pacific Time
GMT -8
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
AFT
Afghanistan Time
GMT +4:30
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm

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How the time difference changes

For most of the year, PT is 11 hours and 30 minutes behind AFT. At other times of the year, PT is 12 hours and 30 minutes behind AFT.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in PT correspond to 8:30 pm to 4:30 am (next day) in AFT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in PT correspond to 9:30 pm to 5:30 am (next day) in AFT.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Time is 12 hours and 30 minutes behind Afghanistan Time
4:00 am04:00 in PT is 4:30 pm16:30 in AFT

PT to AFT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 6:30pm-7:30pm in PT which corresponds to 7am-8am in AFT (next day)

4:00 am04:00 Pacific Time (PT). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
4:30 pm16:30 Afghanistan Time (AFT). Offset UTC +4:30 hours

4:00 am04:00 PT / 4:30 pm16:30 AFT

PTAFT
12am (midnight)12:30 pm
1am1:30 pm
2am2:30 pm
3am3:30 pm
4am4:30 pm
5am5:30 pm
6am6:30 pm
7am7:30 pm
8am8:30 pm
9am9:30 pm
10am10:30 pm
11am11:30 pm
12pm (noon)12:30 am
1pm1:30 am
2pm2:30 am
3pm3:30 am
4pm4:30 am
5pm5:30 am
6pm6:30 am
7pm7:30 am
8pm8:30 am
9pm9:30 am
10pm10:30 am
11pm11:30 am
00:0012:30
01:0013:30
02:0014:30
03:0015:30
04:0016:30
05:0017:30
06:0018:30
07:0019:30
08:0020:30
09:0021:30
10:0022:30
11:0023:30
12:0000:30
13:0001:30
14:0002:30
15:0003:30
16:0004:30
17:0005:30
18:0006:30
19:0007:30
20:0008:30
21:0009:30
22:0010:30
23:0011:30

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

Afghanistan Time

Offset: AFT is 4 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia

Countries using this time zone: Afghanistan

Principal Cities: The largest city in the AFT time zone is Kabul in Afghanistan, with about 4.435 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Herat, Kandahar, Mazar e Sharif, Jalalabad.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Afghanistan Time (AFT) do not change for daylight saving time, so AFT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.

AFT Time Zone Geo Map
AFT timezone map

AFT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +0430 - basic
  • +04:30 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0430 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (04) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of four hours and thirty minutes to the east of the zero meridian.
Time zones with the GMT +4:30 offset:
  • AFT - Afghanistan Time
  • IRDT - Iran Daylight Time