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5:00 am05:00 PDT (UTC-7), Oct 16, 2026 = 11:00 pm23:00 BST (UTC+11), Oct 16, 2026

PDT is 18 hours behind BST.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, PT is 18 hours behind BST Pacific. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PT is 19 hours behind BST Pacific.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 3:00 am (next day) to 12:00 pm (next day) in BST Pacific. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 4:00 am (next day) to 1:00 pm (next day) in BST Pacific.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 03:00 (next day) to 12:00 (next day) in BST Pacific. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 04:00 (next day) to 13:00 (next day) in BST Pacific.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Daylight Time is 18 hours behind Bougainville Standard Time.
5:00 am05:00 in PDT is 11:00 pm23:00 in BST

PDT to BST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 3pm-6pm15:00-18:00 in PDT which corresponds to 9am-12pm09:00-12:00 in BST (next day)

5:00 am05:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
11:00 pm23:00 Bougainville Standard Time (BST). Offset UTC +11:00 hours

5:00 am05:00 PDT / 11:00 pm23:00 BST

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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 North America. 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 United States and the Northwestern part of Mexico. From November 1, 2026, most of British Columbia in Canada keeps UTC-7 all year instead.

Countries using this time zone: Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PT 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

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

Bougainville Standard Time

Offset: BST is 11 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Papua New Guinea

Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST time zone is Arawa in Papua New Guinea, with about 40,266 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Kieta, Panguna.

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

BST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +11 - basic short
  • +1100 - basic
  • +11:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +1100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (11) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eleven hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Lima - Military abbreviation for BST
  • L - short form of 'Lima'
BST Abbreviation: Several time zones share BST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • British Summer Time - UTC +1
  • Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
  • Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
Time zones with the GMT +11 offset:
  • AEDT - Australian Eastern Daylight Time
  • BST - Bougainville Standard Time
  • KOST - Kosrae Time
  • L - Lima Time Zone
  • LHDT - Lord Howe Daylight Time
  • MAGT - Magadan Time
  • NCT - New Caledonia Time
  • NFT - Norfolk Time
  • PONT - Pohnpei Standard Time
  • SBT - Solomon Islands Time
  • VLAST - Vladivostok Summer Time
  • VUT - Vanuatu Time